Data revision notification
Referencing HURSAT-B1
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
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.