ICON2 Model

The ICON2 model is a tropical cyclone model developed by the International Coriolis Observatory of the North Atlantic. The model was developed on August 28th 2016, by PHD Darren Houston.

History
During a weather center conference meeting on August 15th, ICON stated that there was no current tropical cyclone model developed by any of the weather centers attending the meeting. The weather center executives decided that ICON should develop a tropical cyclone model. CEO and founder Darren Houston, developed the model using over 150 years of tropical cyclone data, and top of the line java calculators and renderers. The model was put into alpha testing on August 27th. On August 28th, the first run in the model was done, on 3 active tropical cyclones, Tropical Depression 8, Tropical Depression 9 and Major Hurricane Gaston. Only the ensemble models were finished at the time, so only the ensemble models were ran. Nonetheless, the model recived and overall positive review from weather specialists, with a 4.8/5 rating on the model which was still in the Alpha stage at the time. The other aspects of the model are currently being developed by ICON meteorologists.

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