“…The studies of Ley and Elsberry [1976], Kurihara and Bender [1980], and Wang [2001] demonstrated the advantages in cyclone track prediction with movable two‐way nested models. Tropical cyclone predictions are being operationally provided by the relevant national meteorological agencies [ Iwasaki et al , 1987; Mathur , 1991; Puri et al , 1992; Kurihara et al , 1995; D. R. Chen et al, A new operational typhoon track prediction system at the central weather bureau in Taiwan, paper presented at 21st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, American Meteorological Society, Miami, Florida, 1995; Y. Kurihara et al, Hurricane forecasting with GFDL hurricane prediction system, paper presented at 21st Conference on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology , American Meteorolical Society, Miami, Florida, 1993] and the India Meteorological Department (IMD) issues operational forecasts of the tropical cyclones over north Indian Ocean using limited area models [ Prasad and Rama Rao , 2003].…”