Review and Improvement of Tropical Cyclone Surface Wind Parametric Models Usi…

ABSTRACT: Parametric wind models can be used to formulate the wind distribution under a tropical cyclone (TC) as a simple function with a reduced set of parameters. Here, a range of 10 symmetric parametric models are fitted to a dataset of 920 surface wind radial profiles derived from synthetic aperture radar (SAR) high-resolution observations. Multiple lin- ear regressions are performed to exp…