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Create 'storm_id' field for associating storms with tracts #3

Open lprivette opened 4 years ago

lprivette commented 4 years ago

This needs to be part of the 'events' table.

Admin users will be posting or updating an event with this information.

http://nowcoast.noaa.gov/arcgis/rest/services/nowcoast/wwa_meteocean_tropicalcyclones_trackintensityfcsts_time/MapServer

aaronstephenson commented 2 years ago

Will a given event only ever have one track? If not we could model this as a 1:N relation to a (new?) tracks table.

lprivette commented 2 years ago

The service that actually provided the tracks has been taken down😡 so this whole effort will need to be re-evaluated. But yes, with the old method they would have only had 1 track.

Labeling this issue On Hold.

Latest info after inquiring where to get the no longer available tracks:

Thanks for asking about the data on the Historical Hurricane Tracks website. We get that data from 2 sources, NOAA/NWS/ National Hurricane Center's HURDAT2 data set, and NOAA/NCEI's IBTrACS data set.

I suggest you get the IBTrACS data, which are available in a shapefile format and have global coverage. The IBTrACS files contain all the HURDAT2 data, but they may be a bit behind in incorporating them. In the past, they might lag by as much as a year, but with the new IBTrACS system, they are usually up-to-date, and even include preliminary data for in-season storms. You can get those data from the data access links on the IBtTrACS website: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ibtracs/.

If you want the HURDAT2 data, they are available from the Best Track section of the NHC Data Archive page: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/. Note that you will need to get individual CSV files for both Atlantic and Pacific storms. Those files will have point observations, which you will have to combine to create the tracks. All this is already done for you in the IBTrACS data.