NUMERICAL STUDY OF THE ABNORMAL TRACK OF TYPHOON MAGGIE

Typhoon Maggie (1999) interacted with another tropical depression system and moved along awest-southwest track that is somewhat abnormal during its pre-landing stage. Two numerical experiments arecarried out in this paper to study the effect of the interaction on the track of typhoon Maggie using the mesoscalenumerical weather prediction model system with a tropical cyclone bogusing scheme developed by Center forCoastal and Atmospheric Research, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Results show that thecyclone system interacting with Maggie is the main factor for the abnormal track of Maggie.

Typhoon Maggie （1999） interacted with another tropical depression system and moved along a west-southwest track that is somewhat abnormal during its pre-landing stage. Two numerical experiments are carried out in this paper to study the effect of the interaction on the track of typhoon Maggie using the mcsoscale numerical weather prediction model system with a tropical cyclone bogusing scheme developed by Center for Coastal and Atmospheric Research, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Results show that the cyclone system interacting with Maggie is the main factor for the abnormal track of Maggie.