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  1. Earth and Planetary Sciences › Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research

    The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS)

    Knapp, Kruk, Levinson, Diamond and Neumann · Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society · 2009

    The paper presents IBTrACS, a dataset combining historical tropical cyclone best-track data from many agencies, and covers its construction, the climatology it shows and the uncertainty in storm intensity records.

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    1. UncheckedIBTrACS gives each storm's mean position, the agencies' original intensities and summary statistics, rather than choosing a single preferred track and intensity.“Moreover, rather than preferentially selecting one track and intensity for each storm, the mean position, the original intensities from the agencies, and summary statistics are provided.”

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