STORM climate change tropical cyclone wind speed return periods

doi:10.4121/14510817.v4
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doi: 10.4121/14510817
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Bloemendaal, Nadia; de Moel, Hans; Dullaart, Job; Haarsma, R.J. (Reindert); Haigh, I.D. (Ivan) et. al. (2023): STORM climate change tropical cyclone wind speed return periods. Version 4. 4TU.ResearchData. dataset. https://doi.org/10.4121/14510817.v4
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Datasets containing tropical cyclone maximum wind speed (in m/s) return periods, generated using the STORM climate change datasets (see https://figshare.com/s/397aff8631a7da2843fc) Return periods were empirically calculated using Weibull's plotting formula. The STORM_FIXED_RETURN_PERIOD datasets contain maximum wind speeds for a fixed set of return periods at 10 km resolution in every basin and for every climate model used here (see below). The STORM_FIXED_WIND_SPEED dataset contains return periods for a fixed set of maximum wind speeds at 10 km resolution in every ocean basin. The STORM_CITIES dataset contains return periods at fixed wind speeds and wind speeds at fixed return periods (on two seperate sheets), occurring within 100 km from a selection of 18 coastal cities. The STORM_ISLANDS contains return periods at fixed wind speeds and wind speeds at fixed return periods (on two seperate sheets), occurring within 100 km from the capital city of an island. We included the Small Island Developing States and a set of other islands.


UPDATE 13/05/2022 & 30/05/2022: The data directory now also contains .tif files for the fixed wind speeds and fixed return period maps. These .tif files can be used in GIS applications in case the netcdf-files cannot be loaded in. A special thanks to Bastian Manz for writing the code to create the tif files!


UPDATE 13/12/2023: Tom Russell (Oxford University) and colleagues have created global .tiff maps for the return period datasets. You can find them here: https://zenodo.org/record/7438145 (This comment was previously posted at the synthetic track dataset webpage, but I forgot to also include this here :))

history
  • 2022-02-24 first online
  • 2023-12-14 published, posted
publisher
4TU.ResearchData
format
zip-dictionaries with .nc files.xlsx files
organizations
Climate Econometrics, Nuffield College, Oxford, UK
Deltares,Delft, The Netherlands
MetOffice, Exeter, UK
Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI), De Bilt, The Netherlands;
University of Southampton, National Oceanography Centre, School of Ocean and Earth Science, European Way, Southampton, United Kingdom
Office of Macroeconomic Analysis, U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington DC, USA
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam, the Netherlands

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