Some results are presented from a completed first stage of a collaborative Colorado State University/Australian Bureau of Meteorology project to investigate various aspects of tropical cyclones in the Australian/southwest Pacific region.

The structure of the wind field of a tropical cyclone can be roughly described by three measurements: intensity (maximum wind), size (extent of the vortex), and strength (average wind speed of the vortex). This paper examines the climatology, structure and possible physical processes of tropical cyclones of different sizes.

This study investigates the genesis of tropical cyclones through a combination of the compositing approach and the case study approach.

By combining surface, satellite, radar, and photographic data each scale of cyclone is investigated with emphasis on determining mechanisms by which they intensify or evolve, especially through scale interactions.

This report summarizes research focused on the problem of the water balance and precipitation regimes of extratropical and tropical cyclones.

This study investigates the characteristic large scale flow patterns associated with fast, slow and looping tropical cyclone motion in the western Atlantic and the western North Pacific.