A New Vortex Initialization Scheme Coupled with WRF-ARW

Table 1

Simulation periods.

Name	Start time (UTC)	End time (UTC)	Length (h)
Wutip	00:00, 28 Sep, 2013	12:00, 30 Sep, 2013	60
Fitow	12:00, 2 Oct, 2013	12:00, 6 Oct, 2013	96
Krosa	00:00, 30 Oct, 2013	00:00, 3 Nov, 2013	96
Genevieve	12:00, 9 Aug, 2014	12:00, 11 Aug, 2014	48
Phanfone	00:00, 1 Oct, 2014	00:00, 5 Oct, 2014	96
Nuri	00:00, 1 Nov, 2014	00:00, 5 Nov, 2014	96