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Introduction

HURSAT-B1

• Summary
• Details
• Revisions
• Movies
• Data Access
• Best Track Changes
• Bibliography

HURSAT-Basin

HURSAT-MW

• Summary
• Details
• Revisions
• Imagery
• Data Access
• Bibliography

Google Earth Imagery

• Storms to Reanalyze

Development

Links

Contacts

Data revision notification

• Given potential data set revisions, it is advisable that you notify us by email when you download data so we may contact you when newer data set versions become available.

Referencing HURSAT-B1

• When using this data for research, please reference Knapp and Kossin, 2007

Data Access

• HURSAT data are accessible by anonymous ftp grouped ...
  • by year and basin or
  • by individual storm.
• global_tracks_3h.txt.gz is the 3-hourly best track file used to create the HURSAT version 3 data. Details on its compilation are available here
• Movie loops of all the tropical cyclones are also available.

Documentation

• Dataset documentation is also available online.
• A sample CDL from

  "ncdump -h"

  of one of the netCDF files is provided from a Hurricane Andrew netCDF file.

HURSAT access software

The data are provided in NetCDF format. Please see the NetCDF website for a complete list of commercial and free software which can read this format. A short list of access methods include:

• Libraries available for Fortran, C and other programming languages
• Commercial software have netCDF libraries "built-in", such as MatLab and IDL
• ArcGIS version 9.2 allows GIS users to analyze the data.