I’ve collated some hurricane track data in flat text files so that they are more usable (at least for me) and have posted up the working files since there seems to be interest in this data. I’m also posting up some notes on fiddly format issues while they are fresh in mind.
Willis writes: Well, looking at these studies is giving me a headache. My latest one is High frequency variability in hurricane power dissipation and its relationship to global temperature, James B. Elsner et al.
UKweatherworld has a thread where people don’t comment but simply contribute references on the Holocene Optimum. I’m going to start doing things like this as a way of keeping track of things. People have contributed data but it’s impossible to keep track of. This thread is going to consist only of scripts and data relevant […]
Here’s Willis’ most recent summary of the ongoing dialogue on the Emanuel story.
Posted for bender. bender writes: Attached are analyses of Willis’s landfalling hurricane data in post # 35. Interesting facts: 1. 1974-2005 trend is "n.s." (Note 95% confidence intervals now present.) 2. PACs for lag 10 and 20 are marginally significant. (Recall that for total # hurricanes lag 5 and 10 were sig. It is as […]
Here’s bender’s plot of the number of hurricanes, showing the difference between plotting on an annual and boxed basis. There are statistical issues in fitting trend lines to spiky data like this, which bender is well aware of and pointed out in the predecessor thread. If Curry is unaware of these issues, what does that […]
‘Tis nearly the Atlantic hurricane season, a traditional time for battening down the hatches, making sure the family are safe in the storm shelter, and making sure you are safely marooned in the local bar (this is what I did during one hurricane in the Bahamas in 1995). ‘Tis also the time for people to […]
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The Atlantic Hurricane season
‘Tis nearly the Atlantic hurricane season, a traditional time for battening down the hatches, making sure the family are safe in the storm shelter, and making sure you are safely marooned in the local bar (this is what I did during one hurricane in the Bahamas in 1995). ‘Tis also the time for people to […]