Global Tropical Cyclone "Best Track" Position and Intensity Data

Time series of tropical cyclone "best track" position and intensity data are provided for all ocean basins where tropical cyclones occur. Position and intensity data are available at 6-hourly intervals over the duration of each cyclone's life. The general period of record begins in 1851, but this varies by ocean basin. See the inventories for data availability specific to each basin. This data set was received as a revision to an NCDC tropical cyclone data set, with data generally available through the late 1990s. Since then, the set is being continually updated from the U.S. NOAA National Hurricane Center and the U.S. Navy Joint Typhoon Warning Center best track archives. For a complete history of updates for each ocean basin, see the dataset documentation.

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Temporal Range

  • Begin:  1851-06-25T0000+00
    End:  2011-11-26T0000+00

Keywords

Resource Type dataset
Temporal Range Begin 1851-06-25T0000+00
Temporal Range End 2011-11-26T0000+00
Temporal Resolution N/A
Bounding Box North Lat N/A
Bounding Box South Lat N/A
Bounding Box West Long N/A
Bounding Box East Long N/A
Spatial Representation N/A
Spatial Resolution N/A
Related Links

Related Resource #1 : International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) at NOAA/NCDC

Related Resource #2 : Hurricane Data Center
Additional Information N/A
Resource Format HURDAT
Standardized Resource Format OTHER
Asset Size 6.402 MB
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Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
Access Constraints None
Software Implementation Language N/A

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Resource Support Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Distributor NSF NCAR Geoscience Data Exchange
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Metadata Contact Email datahelp@ucar.edu
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Author Bureau of Meteorology, Australia
Research Data Archive, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
National Hurricane Center,Tropical Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce
Joint Typhoon Warning Center, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense
Science Applications International Corporation
Publisher NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research
Publication Date 1993-12-14
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Not Assigned
Alternate Identifier d824001
Resource Version N/A
Topic Category climatologyMeteorologyAtmosphere
Progress onGoing
Metadata Date 2025-10-09T01:30:07Z
Metadata Record Identifier edu.ucar.gdex::d824001
Metadata Language eng; USA
Suggested Citation Bureau of Meteorology, Australia, Research Data Archive, Computational and Information Systems Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research, National Hurricane Center,Tropical Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, Joint Typhoon Warning Center, U.S. Navy, U.S. Department of Defense, Science Applications International Corporation. (1993). Global Tropical Cyclone "Best Track" Position and Intensity Data. NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research. https://gdex.ucar.edu/datasets/d824001. Accessed 10 October 2025.

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