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Observational Study of Super Typhoon Saola in 2023 When It Was Close to Hong Kong

Version 1 : Received: 22 September 2023 / Approved: 26 September 2023 / Online: 26 September 2023 (05:21:59 CEST)

How to cite: Chan, P.; Choy, C.W.; Chiu, Y. Observational Study of Super Typhoon Saola in 2023 When It Was Close to Hong Kong. Preprints 2023, 2023091688. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1688.v1 Chan, P.; Choy, C.W.; Chiu, Y. Observational Study of Super Typhoon Saola in 2023 When It Was Close to Hong Kong. Preprints 2023, 2023091688. https://doi.org/10.20944/preprints202309.1688.v1

Abstract

Super Typhoon Saola came very close to Hong Kong on 1 and 2 September 2023, necessitating the issuance of No. 10 hurricane signal, the highest tropical cyclone warning signal, in Hong Kong. While there were widespread damages in Hong Kong, no people were killed in the event with effective early warning. It is rare that a super typhoon came very close to Hong Kong and this paper is the first part in the series of the documentation of Saola to summarize the interesting observations of Saola near Hong Kong for future reference by weather forecasters, including sur-face observations, upper air observations, microburst alert from weather radars, and turbulence intensity based on spectral width measurement of radars.

Keywords

tropical cyclone; radar wind profiler; LIDAR; weather radar; microburst

Subject

Environmental and Earth Sciences, Atmospheric Science and Meteorology

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