Earth ID: 3361

Atlantic Hurricane/Storm Summary

Visualizations by Greg Shirah Updated on December 22, 2019

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These still images shows plots of time vs. wind speed for each tropical storm/hurricane of the Atlantic Hurricane seasons. Horizontal lines indicate wind speed category thresholds. A line plot for each storm shows the storm's name and a marker at the peak wind speed.

The plot for the current year automatically updates every 2 hours during hurricane season.

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Greg Shirah (NASA/GSFC): Lead Animator

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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio Storm wind speeds provided by NOAA's National Weather Service via UNISYS

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Data Used:

Hurricane/Tropical Data

Database - Unisys - 06/01/2006 through present (or end of last hurricane season)

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Keywords:
DLESE >> Atmospheric science
DLESE >> Natural hazards
GCMD >> Earth Science >> Atmosphere >> Atmospheric Phenomena >> Hurricanes
NASA Science >> Earth

GCMD keywords can be found on the Internet with the following citation: Olsen, L.M., G. Major, K. Shein, J. Scialdone, S. Ritz, T. Stevens, M. Morahan, A. Aleman, R. Vogel, S. Leicester, H. Weir, M. Meaux, S. Grebas, C.Solomon, M. Holland, T. Northcutt, R. A. Restrepo, R. Bilodeau, 2013. NASA/Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Earth Science Keywords. Version 8.0.0.0.0