katrina_tracks: Hurricane Katrina tracks data

In geanders/stormwindmodel: Model Tropical Cyclone Wind Speeds

Hurricane Katrina tracks data

Description

A dataframe containing hurricane best tracks for Hurricane Katrina in 2005. This dataframe is included for use as an example hurricane tracks dataframe in the package documentation. This data originally came from the Extended Best Track dataset: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/tropical_cyclones/tc_extended_best_track_dataset/

Usage

katrina_tracks

Format

A dataframe with 48 rows and 4 variables:

date

A character string giving the date and time of the observation

latitude

A numeric vector giving the storm's latitude at that observation time

longitude

A numeric vector giving the storm's longitude at that observation time

wind

A numeric vector giving the estimated maximum sustained wind of that storm at that observation time, in knots

Source

http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/research/tropical_cyclones/tc_extended_best_track_dataset/

geanders/stormwindmodel documentation built on Sept. 27, 2022, 6:47 a.m.