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Tropical Cyclones Data Access and Tools
From discovery to visualization, data tools such as Worldview, Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS), and the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)/Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) Subsetting Tools Suite guide users in making the most of tropical cyclones data.
Tropical Cyclones Data Tools
| Tool Sort descending | Description | Services | |
|---|---|---|---|
| AppEEARS | The The Application for Extracting and Exploring Analysis Ready Samples (AppEEARS) offers users a simple and efficient way to perform data access and transformation processes. | Search and Discovery, Subsetting, Customization, Downloading, Visualization | |
| Hazards Mapper | The Hazards Mapper enables users to rapidly get an idea of the population, land area, dams, and nuclear power plants that could be impacted by a wide range of natural events, including floods, earthquakes, fires, and volcanic eruptions. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| Hurricane Intensity Estimator | NASA's Hurricane Intensity Estimator is an online platform that demonstrates the use of a machine learning model for estimating the wind speed of hurricanes. | Visualization, Monitoring Natural Events | |
| Panoply | Panoply is a cross-platform application that plots geo-referenced and other arrays from netCDF, HDF, GRIB, and other datasets. | Visualization, Customization, Reformatting, Subsetting, Comparison | |
| SOTO | State of the Ocean (SOTO) is an interactive web-based tool that generates informative maps, animations, and plots that communicate and prove the discovery and analysis of the state of the oceans. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization | |
| VEDA | NASA's Visualization, Exploration, and Data Analysis (VEDA) project is an open-source science cyberinfrastructure for data processing, visualization, exploration, and geographic information systems (GIS) capabilities. | Access, Analysis, Processing, Visualization, Geoprocessing | |
| Vertex | Vertex is a graphical search interface for finding synthetic aperture radar (SAR) data. | Search and Discovery, Access, Downloading, Processing, Subsetting | |
| Worldview | Worldview offers the capability to interactively browse over 1,200 global, full-resolution satellite imagery layers and download the underlying data. | Analysis, Search and Discovery, Visualization, Access, Comparison, Monitoring Natural Events |
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Featured Observation Method: VIIRS
The Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) is an instrument aboard the joint NASA/NOAA Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership (Suomi NPP) and NOAA-20 platforms. VIIRS can take daily images cross multiple spectrum bands to collect high-resolution atmospheric imagery and other instrument products including visible and infrared images of hurricanes.
With the eventual retirement of the Terra and Aqua platforms, the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) instruments will take the lead in daily Earth observations.
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VIIRS I-band (375 m) Active Fire and Corrected Reflectance products are the newest near real-time products available through LANCE.
The new Level 1 products are created from data acquired by the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard the NOAA-21/Joint Polar Satellite System-2 (JPSS-2) spacecraft.
Join us to learn how to discover, subset, access and visualize both MODIS and VIIRS data products using a suite of user-friendly tools developed by NASA's ORNL DAAC.
Tropical Cyclones Datasets
| Dataset | Platforms | Instruments | Temporal Extent | Location Keywords | Spatial Extent | Data Format |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Geocoded Disasters (GDIS) Dataset | MODELS | Computer | 1960-01-01 to 2018-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 90 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | CSV, Geodatabase, GeoPackage, RData, PDF, PDF, PNG |
| Global Cyclone Hazard Frequency and Distribution | MODELS | Computer | 1980-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, PNG, PDF, WMS |
| Global Cyclone Mortality Risks and Distribution | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG, WMS |
| Global Cyclone Proportional Economic Loss Risk Deciles | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 86 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, PDF, PNG, WMS |
| Global Cyclone Total Economic Loss Risk Deciles | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 86 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG, WMS |
| Global Multihazard Frequency and Distribution | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG |
| Global Multihazard Mortality Risks and Distribution | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG |
| Global Multihazard Proportional Economic Loss Risk Deciles | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG |
| Global Multihazard Total Economic Loss Risk Deciles | MODELS | Computer | 2000-01-01 to 2000-12-31 | GLOBAL | N: 85 S: -58 E: 180 W: -180 | ASCII, DBF, PDF, PNG |
| GRIP Hurricane and Tropical Storm Forecasts V1 | MODELS | Computer | 2010-08-12 to 2010-11-14 | ATLANTIC OCEAN | N: 87.6 S: 0.8 W: -178.5 | ASCII |
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