Hurricane Track Errors from OMEGA Predictions

This table lists the error in the tracks of OMEGA-simulated hurricanes. The errors were computed from comparisons of OMEGA predictions with the observed locations of the storm centers (published by the National Hurricane Center). The error values are in kilometers. OMEGA does not perform any bogussing of the initial vortex. Hence the initial error is quite high in many cases. The track errors are not computed once the storm makes landfall as the storm center is harder to locate in an automated fashion due to the signatures of terrain on pressure and windspeed distributions.