Hurricane Satellite (HURSAT) Data
HURSAT-B1 Revision information
- Current Version - v05
- Released - May 2011
- Features
- Generated with IBTrACS v03r02
- Each storm file also has entire storm track and intensity data from IBTrACS
- Consistent filnaming with HURSAT AVHRR v05 and HURSAT MW v05.
- Bugs
- Version - v04
- Not publicly released (Dec 2009)
- Version - v03
- Released - 1 December 2007
- Features
- Version 2.0 bugs fixed.
- New storm name format will not change as data are updated.
- No storm tracks from JTWC East Pacific are used.
- Better QC instituted to remove corrupt files.
- More thorough merging of HURDAT and JTWC storm tracks. Changes to best track files are
documented online.
- Files were made smaller by replacing the VZA array with a scalar value of view zenith angle for each file
- Bugs
- Storm names from non-HURDAT storms did not make it into the HURSAT-B1 filenames.
This has no impact on the data itself, just the filenames.
- Version v02
- Released - 30 June 2007
- Features
- Version 1.0 bugs fixed.
- Storm location, central pressure and maximum sustained wind
provided as variables.
- netCDF metadata provides traceability by providing
original JTWC/HURDAT filenames for each netCDF file.
- Filename changed from hursat-geo to hursat-b1
- Bugs
- Two storms had inverted temperature scales (1982WP027 and 1982WP028)
- Some storms were inadvertantly included (sometimes called invests)
- Incorrect temporal interpolation when original best track data was not 6-hourly
- Version 1.0
- Bugs
- Data not fully CF compliant
- View zenith angle (VZA) grid calculated incorrectly - although the VZA value in the filename is correct.
- Some positions were interpolated incorrectly from 6-hourly to 3-hourly (for instance, the last 8 interpolated positions for Ophelia in 2005)

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