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COMET_CASE_020: COMET Case Study 020: Hurricane Floyd

Summary

Case 020 provides focus on Hurricane Floyd which brought heavy rain and flooding to the eastern coast of the United States and was responsible for 68 deaths and $2.5 billion in damages.

Objectives:

This case provides data to allow in depth study of Hurricane Floyd

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Datasets from this project

Additional information

GCMD Name A - C > COMET > Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education, and Training > 5c70d6af-b73d-418e-a793-47481302eeb5
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Temporal coverage

Begin Date 1999-09-14 00:00:00
End Date 1999-09-17 23:59:59

Spatial coverage


Map data from IBCSO, IBCAO, and Global Topography.

Maximum (North) Latitude: 51.00, Minimum (South) Latitude: 30.00
Minimum (West) Longitude: -90.00, Maximum (East) Longitude: -62.00

Related projects

Parent project COMET: COMET Case Studies
NSF

This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation and managed by the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material do not necessarily reflect the views of the U.S. National Science Foundation.