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| The Atlantic Hurricane Database Re-analysis Project is an effort
to extend and revise the National Hurricane Center's North Atlantic hurricane
database (or HURDAT). Going back to 1851 and revisiting storms in more recent years,
information on tropical cyclones is revised using an enhanced collection of historical
meteorological data in the context of today's scientific understanding of hurricanes
and analysis techniques. To receive email updates about progress in the Atlantic Hurricane Re-analysis Project, send an email to Chris Landsea.
June 2009 - Minor changes made to HURDAT. 1)Small adjustments made in HURDAT (both 80 column data and Easy-to-read) for all of the 2008 tropical cyclones near time of landfall (error in converting from individual files to HURDAT); 2)Easy-to-read file cleaned up for extraneous entries in 1989 hurricane season; 3) Minor revisions made to HURDAT for 1888/03,1895/02, and 1896/01. Details on these revisions are in the metadata files. April 2009 - The 2008 hurricane season database was appended to HURDAT. This data is based upon the Tropical Cyclone Reports (TCR) written by the hurricane specialists at the National Hurricane Center/ Tropical Predition Center (NHC/TPC). March 2009 - A complete reanalysis was conducted for the years of 1921 to 1925. All 27 tropical storms and hurricanes of the era were revised in track and intensity (with one in 1923 removed from HURDAT). 10 new tropical cyclones were added for these five years. Most significant hurricanes of this era were the 1921 Tampa Bay hurricane that struck as a Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale Category 3, the 1922 Bermuda hurricane that struck the Bermuda islands as a Category 3, and the 1924 Cuba hurricane that struck as a Category 5 (and is now the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the database). Co-authors on the reanalyses for 1921 to 1925 are Steve Feuer, Ramon Perez Suarez, Ricardo Prieto, and Jorge Sanchez-Sesma. Special thanks also to James Belanger, Auguste Boissonnade, Emery Boose, Cristina Carrasco, Michael Chenoweth, Gil Clark, Jose Colon, Joan David, Neal Dorst, John Gamache, Daniel Gladstein, Mark Guishard, Mark Jelinek, Cary Mock, Charlie Neumann, Adrian Santiago, and the NHC Best Track Change Committee (Jack Beven - chair, Lixion Avila, Eric Blake, Hugh Cobb, Richard Pasch, and Colin McAdie [past-member]).
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