Hurricane history: Per Storm Maximum Wind Speeds (North Atlantic)

The dataset consists of 2010 observations for all tropical cyclones in the NHC best track record over the period 1899-2006. Each observation contains per cyclone maximum wind speeds and other relevant information.

Usage

data(hurricanehist)

Format

hurricanehist contains 7 columns:

Year

The Year.

Region

The region among "Basin", "East Florida", "Gulf", "US".

Windmax

The maximum windspeed in knot (1kt = 0.51 m/s).

NAO

the North Atlantic Oscillation (NAO) index as an indicator of storm steering.

SOI

the Southern Oscillation Index (SOI) as an indicator of El Nino-Southern Oscillation.

SST

the Atlantic sea-surface temperature (SST) as an indicator of cyclone energy.

SSTmda

the SST mda.

Source

See http://myweb.fsu.edu/jelsner/_site/.

References

Dataset used in Jagger and Elsner (2008), Modelling tropical cyclone intensity with quantile regression, International Journal of Climatology 29, 1351 - 1361.

Examples

# (1) load of data
#
data(hurricanehist)
dim(hurricanehist)
#> [1] 2010    8

# (2) box plot
#
boxplot(Windmax ~ Year, data=hurricanehist, 
  ylim=c(35,175), subset=Year > 1939)