STORM IBTrACS present climate synthetic tropical cyclone tracks
doi: 10.4121/12706085

Datasets consisting of 10,000 years of synthetic tropical cyclone tracks, generated using the Synthetic Tropical cyclOne geneRation Model (STORM) algorithm (see Bloemendaal et al, Generation of a Global Synthetic Tropical cyclone Hazard Dataset using STORM, in review). The dataset is generated using historical data from IBTrACS and resembles present-climate conditions. The data can be used to calculate tropical cyclone risk in all (coastal) regions prone to tropical cyclones.
VERSION UPDATE (30 Sept 2020): The Saffir-Simpson category thresholds were wrongly calculated in the previous version, this has now been corrected.
VERSION UPDATE (18 March 2021): The old version of STORM contained some duplicate cyclone tracks. These have now been removed.
VERSION UPDATE (22 July 2022): The last version accidentally still had the old wrong categories ... This version has the right categories AND the duplicates removed! :-)
- 2019-11-20 first online
- 2022-07-22 published, posted
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands;
University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, School of Ocean and Earth Science, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands
DATA
- 2,612 bytes md5 Basins of STORM IBTrACS dataset.kml
- 2,322 bytes md5 README.txt
- 543,251,824 bytes md5 STORMV4.zip
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