superBT = a super Tropical Cyclone Best Track data set

   A super Best Track for Tropical Cyclone (TC) Forecasting and Research
   
			   20230707
			 Mike Fiorino
		       mfiorino@gmu.edu

What's a superBT?

A super(position) of ancillary data to the final/post-season best tracks of the operational US TC forecast agencies:

JTWC - Joint Typhoon Warning Center, Pearl Harbor HI ---- basins: western North Pacific (WPAC), Indian Ocean (IO), and southern Hemisphere (SHEM)

NHC - National Hurricane Center, Miami FL ---- basins, central and eastern North Pacific (C/EPAC), and North Atlantic (LANT)

*** The superBT is global ***

Ancillary Data Sets

1. operational information on both developing and non-developing pre/potential or pTCs
2. ECMWF ERA5 reanalysis 00/12 UTC 10-d forecasts
3. three near-global high-resolution in space and time precipitation analyses: a) NOAA CMORPH (US) b) JAXA GsMAP (Japan) c) NASA IMERG (US)
4. Wind Structure a) CIRA MTCSWA (US)

Version History:

V03 -- beta version 3 a) 2007-2023 (the 2023 SHEM season started 1 July 2022) b) ERA5 TC forecasts (both TCs and pTCs) c) storm & environment variables from ERA5 on the track forecasts d) mean precip in the r=300,500,800 km areas for both the observed and forecast tracks e) direct calculation of the Radius of the Outer-most Closed Isobar (ROCI/POCI) from ERA5

V10 -- first release = V03 + a) 1999-2023 b) radius of 34 kt winds (R34) from ERA5 and CIRA

Files:

v03/doc/ -- docs

NB: under development

sbt-full-20230115.txt -- initial doc sbt-tccodes-subbasin-codes.txt -- TC and basin codes

v03/dat/ -- data

sum-md3-2007-2023-MRG.csv -- summary of each TC h-meta-md3-sum-csv.txt -- description of each column in sum-md3 file

all-md3-2007-2023-MRG.csv -- best track + extra operational information h-meta-md3-vars-csv.txt -- description of each column in all-md3 file

sbt-v03-2007-2023-MRG.csv -- the superBT h-meta-sbt-v03-vars-csv.txt -- description of each column in sbt-v03 file

v03/prc/ -- processing (python2 but easily converted to py3)

checking code: c-9xtime-time2gen.py c-md3-nn-9x.py c-stm-dir-sum.py

processing code: p-md3-ls.py -- a storm listing utility p-md3-stm-anl.py p-sbt-v03-anl.py

vars/methods/classes: sBT.py