Arctic Cyclone Track Data Set, 1966-1993
Summary
This data set comprises a 28-year record (1 May 1966 through 31 December 1993) of twice-daily extra tropical cyclone statistics for the Northern Hemisphere. Data were obtained from application of the updated Serreze (1995) algorithm to National Meteorological Center (NMC) sea level pressure (SLP) fields for the 47x51 octagonal grid. The data set includes the position and central pressure of each cyclone, whether the observation represents a cyclogenesis or cyclolysis event (from the first and last observation of each system), and the local Laplacian (105 mb m-2) and sea level pressure tendency (SLPT) (mb (12h-1)) at each cyclone center.
Data access
ORDER data for delivery by FTPAdditional information
Related projects: ARCSSObservational frequency: 12 hourly
Spatial type: point
Categories: Arctic, Surface
Documentation: readme.txt [9 KB]
Temporal coverage
Begin datetime: 1966-05-01 00:00:00, End datetime: 1993-12-31 23:59:59
Spatial coverage
Minimum latitude: 60.000000, Minimum longitude: -180.000000Maximum latitude: 90.000000, Maximum longitude: 180.000000
Point of contact
Mark C. SerrezeNSIDC
E-Mail address: serreze at nsidc dot org