Hurricane Tracks from 2017 with Precipitation and Cloud Data

  • Released Thursday, October 5, 2017
  • Updated Tuesday, September 17, 2019 at 2:39PM
  • ID: 4586

2017 Atlantic Hurricane season storm tracks with IMERG precipitation and GOES clouds (01 Aug 2017 to 31 Oct 2017)

These visualizations show the tracks of Atlantic hurricanes during 2017. Data from the Global Precipitation Mission called IMERG is used to show rainfall and data from NOAA's GOES East shows clouds. Storm position and wind speed data from UNISYS are used to show the track lines. The numbers 1 through 5 as well as "T" are displayed when storms change categories. The "T" stands for tropical storm.

There are 2 visualizations at various resolutions:
- a wide Atlantic view that shows all of the hurricane tracks
- a view that follows and zooms in only on Hurricane Harvey

These visualizaitons were created to support NASA talks given at the National Air and Space Musuem (NASM) in October 2017. The wide Atlantic view was updated at the end of hurricane season to include all Atlantic hurricanes in 2017 for display at the American Geophysical Union (AGU) conference.

These visualizations only go through October 2017 because there were no Atlantic hurricanes in November or December 2017.

Hurricane Harvey storm track with IMERG precipitation and GOES clouds (2017 Aug 16 to 2017 Sep 01)

Credits

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NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio

Series

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Datasets used in this visualization

IMERG
Data Compilation | NASA/GSFC

Dataset can be found at: http://pmm.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/document_files/IMERG_ATBD_V4.4.pdf

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CPC (Climate Prediction Center) Cloud Composite
Data Compilation | Climate Prediction Center (CPC)

Global cloud cover from multiple satellites

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GTOPO30 Topography and Bathymetry
Data Compilation | USGS
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Hurricane/Tropical Data
Database | Unisys
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