International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS)
World Data Center for Meteorology, Asheville.

Citation

When using IBTrACS in a any written work, please refer to:

  • Knapp, K. R., M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and C. J. Neumann, 2010:
    The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): Unifying tropical cyclone best track data.
    Bulletin of the American Meteor. Society, 91, 363-376.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1

IBTrACS related publications from the team

  • Diamond, H.J., A.M. Lorrey, and J.A. Renwick, 2013:
    A Southwest Pacific Tropical Cyclone Climatology and Linkages to the El Nino Southern Oscillation.
    Journal of Climate, 26, 3-25.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/JCLI-D-12-00077.1.
  • Diamond, H.J., A.M. Lorrey, K.R. Knapp, and D.H. Levinson, 2012:
    Development of an enhanced tropical cyclone tracks database for the southwest Pacific from 1840-2010.
    International Journal of Climatology, 32, 2240-2250.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1002/joc.2412.
  • Levinson, D. H., H. J. Diamond, K. R. Knapp, M. C. Kruk, and E. J. Gibney, 2010:
    Toward a homogenous global tropical cyclone best track dataset
    Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 377-380.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/2010BAMS2930.1
  • Kruk, M. C., K. R. Knapp, and D. H. Levinson, 2010:
    A technique for merging global tropical cyclone best track data.
    Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, 27,680-692.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/2009JTECHA1267.1
  • Knapp, K. R., and M. C. Kruk, 2010:
    Quantifying interagency differences in tropical cyclone best track wind speed estimates
    Monthly Weather Review, 138, 1459-1473.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1175/2009MWR3123.1.
  • Levinson, D. H., and H. J. Diamond, 2009:
    Combining Tropical Cyclone Data Sets Worldwide
    Eos, 90.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1029/2009EO350006.
  • Knapp, K. R., M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, and E. J. Gibney, 2009:
    Archive compiles new resource for global tropical cyclone research
    Eos, Transactions, AGU., 90, 46.
    non-gonvernment domain doi:10.1029/2009EO060002.
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