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- Title
THE INTERNATIONAL BEST TRACK ARCHIVE FOR CLIMATE STEWARDSHIP (IBTrACS).
- Authors
Knapp, Kenneth R.; Kruk, Michael C.; Levinson, David H.; Diamond, Howard J.; Neumann, Charles J.
- Abstract
The article focuses on the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTraCS), a tropical cyclone data consisting of storm position and intensity estimates with an interval of six hours. It cites the sources for IBTraCS including Hong Kong Observatory (HKO), Meteorological Service of New Zealand Ltd. and Fiji Meteorological Service. It highlights that IBTraCS dataset is providing interagency variability measures which helps in identifying uncertain records of tropical cyclone.
- Subjects
TROPICAL cyclones; CYCLONE tracks; STORMS; CLIMATOLOGY; METEOROLOGICAL services; DATABASE management
- Publication
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 2010, Vol 91, Issue 3, p363
- ISSN
0003-0007
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1