Data centers providing best track data
The following organizations provided best track data which are included in the IBTrACS data set:
- Australian Bureau of Meteorology
- China Meteorological Agency's Shanghai Typhoon Institute
- Hong Kong Observatory
- Joint Typhoon Warning Center
- RSMC Honolulu, HI, USA (NOAA's Central Pacific Hurricane Center)
- RSMC La Reunion
- RSMC Miami, FL, USA (NOAA's Tropical Prediction Center) (HURDAT)
- RSMC Nadi, Fiji
- RSMC New Delhi, India
- RSMC Tokyo, Japan
- TCWC Wellington, New Zealand
- the NCDC Climate Database Modernization Program (CDMP) for digitizing hardcopies of best track data.
- Charlie Neumann, for making his Southern Hemisphere dataset available for this work
