saomai_tracks: Typhoon Saomai tracks data

In geanders/stormwindmodel: Model Tropical Cyclone Wind Speeds

Typhoon Saomai tracks data

Description

A dataframe containing tracking data for Typhoon Saomai in 2006. This dataframe is included for use as an example storm tracks dataframe in the package documentation. This data originally came from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/

Usage

saomai_tracks

Format

A dataframe with 67 rows and 5 variables:

iso_time

A date-time value giving the time of the observation (in UTC)

lat

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

lon

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

usa_wind

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

usa_rmw

A numeric vector giving the estimated radius to maximum wind, in nautical miles.

Source

https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/international-best-track-archive?name=sources

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