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

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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

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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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RC1: 'Tropical Cyclones', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Mar 2016
- AC1: 'nhess-2016-39 - Response to Review #1', Andrew Magee, 04 May 2016
RC2: 'Review report of "An intercomparison of tropical cyclone best-track products for the southwest Pacific" by Magee et al.', Anonymous Referee #2, 22 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'nhess-2016-39 - Response to Review #2', Andrew Magee, 04 May 2016

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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).