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International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship Project

The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) provides location and intensity for global tropical cyclones. The data span from the 1840s to present, generally providing data at 3-hour intervals. While the best track data is focused on position and intensity (maximum sustained wind speed or minimum central pressure), other parameters are provided by some agencies (e.g., radius of maximum winds, environmental pressure, radius of hurricane force winds, etc.) and are likewis

Source details

Licence: proprietary

Evidence quality: 22

Listed in gee public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).

Metadata checked: 2026-10-14T13:20:00.000Z

Evidence

• ee.FeatureCollection('NOAA/IBTrACS/v4')
• https://developers.google.com/earth-engine/datasets/catalog/NOAA_IBTrACS_v4

Check upstream coverage, uncertainty and licence before use. Station observations are not forecasts or design levels.