The NCDC Hurricane Satellite (HURSAT) data set consist of raw satellite observations derived from the ISCCP B1 data centered on historical tropical cyclones (TC).
| Current Data Set Version | 5 |
| Updates | To be updated as needed. See revision plans for more information. |
| Number of storms | 3321 tropical cyclones |
| Number of satellite observations of storms | 299,260 |
| Temporal coverage | May 30, 1978 to Dec. 15, 2009 |
| Temporal resolution | 3 hourly imagery |
| Spatial coverage | Global coverage: all storms are visible from the geostationary constellation (except some early storms in the Indian Ocean) |
| Spatial resolution | ~8km |
| Data set grid | 0.07 deg lat/lon grid centered on the storm location at the time of image with 301x301 pixels (spans ~1100km from the storm center) |
| Spectral coverage | Visible (~0.6um) and infrared window (~11um) and other channels when available: water vapor (~6.7 um), near IR (~3.9 um) and split window (~12 um) |
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| Data set generation | IBTrACS were temporally-interpolated to match the 3-hourly satellite resolution. The satellite data were then gridded to 8km, with grid centers fixed on the tropical cyclone center of circulation. |
| Data set details | Knapp and Kossin, 2007 |



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