The National Hurricane Center (NHC) conducts a post-storm analysis of each tropical cyclone in its area of responsibility to determine the official assessment of the cyclone's history. This analysis makes use of all available observations, including those that may not have been available in rea...
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| Summary: | The National Hurricane Center (NHC) conducts a post-storm analysis of each tropical cyclone in its area of responsibility to determine the official assessment of the cyclone's history. This analysis makes use of all available observations, including those that may not have been available in real time. In addition, NHC conducts ongoing reviews of any retrospective tropical cyclone analyses brought to its attention, and on a regular basis updates the historical record to reflect changes introduced via the Best Track Change Committee (Landsea et al. 2004a, 2004b, 2008, 2012, Hagen et al. 2012,). NHC has traditionally disseminated the tropical cyclone historical database in a format known as HURDAT (short for HURricane DATabase – Jarvinen et al. 1984). This report updates the original HURDAT documentation to reflect significant changes to both the format and content for the tropical cyclones and subtropical cyclones of the Atlantic basin (i.e., North Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, and Caribbean Sea). The original HURDAT format substantially limited the type of best track information that could be conveyed. The format of this new version- HURDAT2 (HURricane DATa 2 nd generation)- is based upon the “best tracks ” available from the b-decks in the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast (ATCF – Sampson and |
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