NOAA NHC HURDAT2 Pacific Hurricane Catalog

NOAA/NHC/HURDAT2/pacific
Dataset Availability
1949-06-11T00:00:00Z–2018-11-09T00:00:00Z
Dataset Provider
Earth Engine Snippet
FeatureCollection
ee.FeatureCollection("NOAA/NHC/HURDAT2/pacific")
FeatureView
ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer("NOAA/NHC/HURDAT2/pacific_FeatureView")
Tags
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Description

Hurricane best track database (HURDAT2).

Pacific basin 1949-2018.

Table Schema

Table Schema

Name Type Description
seq DOUBLE

ATCF cyclone number for that year

name STRING

Hurricane name. e.g. "ALEX"

datetime STRING

Observation time in UTC. Format is YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SS.

record_id STRING

Single letter desinating a specific event in a hurricane track. An empty string if no code.

  • C - Closest approach to a coast not followed by a landfall
  • G - Genesis
  • I - An intensity peak in terms of both pressure and wind
  • L - Landfall (center of system crossing a coastline)
  • P - Minimum in central pressure
  • R - Provides additional detail on the intensity of the cyclone when rapid changes are underway
  • S - Change of status of the system
  • T - Provides additional detail on the track (position) of the cyclone
  • W - Maximum sustained wind speed
status STRING

Status of system:

  • DB - Disturbance (of any intensity)
  • ET - Unknown. The only occurrence is in HARVEY.
  • EX - Extratropical cyclone (of any intensity)
  • HU - Tropical cyclone of hurricane intensity (> 64 knots)
  • LO - A low that is neither a tropical cyclone, a subtropical cyclone, nor an extratropical cyclone (of any intensity)
  • SD - Subtropical cyclone of subtropical depression intensity (< 34 knots)
  • SS - Subtropical cyclone of subtropical storm intensity (> 34 knots)
  • TD - Tropical cyclone of tropical depression intensity (< 34 knots)
  • TS - Tropical cyclone of tropical storm intensity (34-63 knots)
  • WV - Tropical Wave (of any intensity)
max_wind_kts DOUBLE

Maximum wind speed

min_pressure DOUBLE

Minimum pressure

numEntries DOUBLE

Number of points for a particular hurricane

radii_ne_34kt DOUBLE

34 kt wind radii maximum extent in northeastern quadrant

radii_se_34kt DOUBLE

34 kt wind radii maximum extent in southeastern quadrant

radii_sw_34kt DOUBLE

34 kt wind radii maximum extent in southwestern quadrant

radii_nw_34kt DOUBLE

34 kt wind radii maximum extent in northwestern quadrant

radii_ne_50kt DOUBLE

50 kt wind radii maximum extent in northeastern quadrant

radii_se_50kt DOUBLE

50 kt wind radii maximum extent in southeastern quadrant

radii_sw_50kt DOUBLE

50 kt wind radii maximum extent in southwestern quadrant

radii_nw_50kt DOUBLE

50 kt wind radii maximum extent in northwestern quadrant

radii_ne_64kt DOUBLE

64 kt wind radii maximum extent in northeastern quadrant

radii_se_64kt DOUBLE

64 kt wind radii maximum extent in southeastern quadrant

radii_sw_64kt DOUBLE

64 kt wind radii maximum extent in southwestern quadrant

radii_nw_64kt DOUBLE

64 kt wind radii maximum extent in northwestern quadrant

basin STRING

Ocean basin. Always one of:

  • CP - North Central Pacific
  • EP - Northeast Pacific
id STRING

Code for a particular hurricane. Basic code followed by a 2 digit cyclone number followed by a 4-digit year. e.g. "CP011993"

year DOUBLE

Year in which the hurricane occurred

Terms of Use

Terms of Use

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Code Editor (JavaScript)

// Show hurricane tracks and points for 1993.
var hurricanes = ee.FeatureCollection('NOAA/NHC/HURDAT2/pacific');

var year = '1993';
var points = hurricanes.filter(ee.Filter.date(ee.Date(year).getRange('year')));

// Find all of the hurricane ids.
var GetId = function(point) {
  return ee.Feature(point).get('id');
};
var storm_ids = points.toList(1000).map(GetId).distinct();

// Create a line for each hurricane.
var lines = ee.FeatureCollection(storm_ids.map(function(storm_id){
  var pts = points.filter(ee.Filter.eq('id', ee.String(storm_id)));
  pts = pts.sort('system:time_start');
  var line = ee.Geometry.LineString(pts.geometry().coordinates());
  var feature = ee.Feature(line);
  return feature.set('id', storm_id);
}));

Map.addLayer(lines, {color: 'red'}, 'tracks');
Map.addLayer(points, {color: 'black'}, 'points');

Map.setCenter(210, 30, 3);
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Visualize as a FeatureView

A FeatureView is a view-only, accelerated representation of a FeatureCollection. For more details, visit the FeatureView documentation.

Code Editor (JavaScript)

var fvLayer = ui.Map.FeatureViewLayer('NOAA/NHC/HURDAT2/pacific_FeatureView');

var visParams = {
  isVisible: false,
  pointSize: 20,
  rules: [
    {
      filter: ee.Filter.eq('year', 2018),
      isVisible: true,
      pointFillColor: {
        property: 'max_wind_kts',
        mode: 'linear',
        palette: ['f1eef6', 'd7b5d8', 'df65b0', 'ce1256'],
        min: 15,
        max: 140
      }
    }
  ]
};

fvLayer.setVisParams(visParams);
fvLayer.setName('2018 hurricane max wind speed');

Map.setLocked(false, 4);
Map.setCenter(-130, 20, 4);
Map.add(fvLayer);
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