hurr_tracks: Storm tracks for Atlantic basin storms

In geanders/hurricaneexposuredata: Data Characterizing Exposure to Hurricanes in United States Counties

Storm tracks for Atlantic basin storms

Description

A dataset containing the storm tracks for Atlantic basin tropical storms between 1988 and 2018, from the US National Hurricane Center's Best Track Atlantic hurricane database (HURDAT2). Only storms that came within 250 km of at least one US county are included.

Usage

hurr_tracks

Format

A data frame with 5,503 rows and 6 variables:

storm_id

Unique storm identifier with the storm name and year, separated by a hyphen (e.g., "Alberto-1988", "Katrina-2005"). Some storms are "Unnamed" or have other generic names. In these cases, it may be preferable to identify the storm using the first four characters of their ATCF ID (usa_atcf_id) and the storm season rather than the storm ID (e.g., 'AL13-1988').

usa_atcf_id

Character string with the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting System ID for the storm.

date

Character string with date and time of storm track recording, in the Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) time zone. This date is formated as %Y%m%d%H%M.

latitude

Latitude of storm center, in decimal degrees

longitude

Longitude of storm center, in decimal degrees (note: longitudes are given as negative values for longitudes west of the prime meridian)

wind

1-minute maximum sustained surface wind speed, measured at 10 meters above the ground, in knots (values are rounded to the nearest 5-knot value)

Source

https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-1851-2018-120319.txt

References

Landsea, CW and JL Franklin, 2013. Atlantic Hurricane Database Uncertainty and Presentation of a New Database Format. Monthly Weather Revue, 141, 3576–3592.

geanders/hurricaneexposuredata documentation built on May 25, 2022, 5:15 a.m.