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Subject: J1) Where can I get historical data of tropical cyclones?
Contributed by Chris Landsea
FREE DATA
- HURDAT For more detailed information regarding the
re-analysis of the Atlantic hurricane database (currently 1851 to 1885)
surf to our
HURDAT page. To download the actual data go here.
Provided by
Chris Landsea.
- Unisys The HURDAT information has be rendered into
graphic form by
Unisys Corporation and includes a track graphic as well as an
ASCII listing for each storm since 1851.
- NOAA Coastal Services Center NOAA's
Coastal
Services Center has put together a very nice interactive
website which allows the user to search the HURDAT data base
by location. You may select a major city or latitude and
longitude and find how many storms of a particular strength and
over particular ranges of time and proximity have approached that
point.
NOT-FREE DATA
- World Weather Disc ($295):
Monthly temp, precip, pressure, sunshine data for about 2000 world
stations for period of record. Daily weather data at hundreds of US
stations. Data for some stations on temp, precip, freeze, drought, soil
moisture, wind, storms. Frequency and movement of tropical cyclones.
Contact:
Cliff Mass
Dept. of Atmos. Sci. (AK40)
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195
USA
(206)685-0910
- Global Tropical and Extratropical Cyclone Climatic Atlas (GTECCA) 2.0 CD-ROM:
This single volume CD-ROM contains global historic tropical storm track
data for five tropical storm basins. Period of record vary for each basin,
beginning as early as the 1870's, with 1995 as the latest year. Northern
hemispheric extratropical storm track data are included from 1965 to 1995.
Tropical track data includes time, position, storm stage (maximum wind,
central pressure when available). The user has the capability to display
tracks, and to track data for any basin or user-selected geographic area.
The user is also able to select storm tracks passing within a user-defined
radius of any point. Narratives for all tropical storms for the 1980-1995
period are included along with basin-wide tropical storm statistics.
Contact:
National Climatic Data Center
Federal Building
Asheville,
NC 28801
USA
(704)271-4800
email ncdc.orders@noaa.gov.
WEB SITE HISTORICAL DATA :
(Provided by Gary Gray.)
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