An intercomparison of tropical cyclone best-track products for the  southwest Pacific

Magee, Andrew D.; Verdon-Kidd, Danielle C.; Kiem, Anthony S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1431-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1431-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1431-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 6

Research article

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16 Jun 2016

Research article |

| 16 Jun 2016

An intercomparison of tropical cyclone best-track products for the southwest Pacific

Andrew D. Magee, Danielle C. Verdon-Kidd, and Anthony S. Kiem

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https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-16-1431-2016-supplement

Data sets

The Joint Typhoon Warning Centre Tropical Cyclone Best-Tracks JTWC http://www.usno.navy.mil/NOOC/nmfc-ph/RSS/jtwc/best_tracks/index.html

The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) K. R. Knapp, M. C. Kruk, D. H., Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and C. J. Neumann http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/ 50index.php?name=ibtracs-data

Development of an enhanced tropical cyclone tracks database for the southwest Pacific from 1840 to 2010 H. J. Diamond, A. M. Lorrey, K. R. Knapp, and D. H. Levinson http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/projects/speartc

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We examine the spatiotemporal differences between three TC databases for the southwest Pacific region. In addition, the usefulness of pre-satellite era TC data (1945–1969) is evaluated. While changes in observational technologies from 1945 have undoubtedly improved our ability to detect and monitor TCs, we show that pre-satellite era TC data are not temporally or statistically different to post-satellite era data (1970–present).