A Reanalysis of the 1944-1953 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons
Posted by
Fred on 1/7/2011, 2:51 pm
A Master's Thesis has been completed on the following topic:
"A Reanalysis of the 1944-1953 Atlantic Hurricane Seasons -
The First Decade of Aircraft Reconnaissance" by Andrew
Hagen at the University of Miami.
http://etd.library.miami.edu/theses/available/etd-12132010-141954/unrestricted/ahagenF10.pdf
This has been accomplished through funding provided by the NOAA
Climate Program Office. Some highlights from this mountainous 851 page
effort include the following:
1) 21 new tropical storms and hurricanes are recommended to be
added to HURDAT;
2) The number of major hurricanes is suggested to be significantly
reduced from an average of 3.6 to 2.7 per year during this decade
(this reduction is due to the removal of a known high bias
in the winds during this era);
3) A large number of central pressure measurements have been rediscovered.
If included into HURDAT, this would increase this observations from
92 up to 301 during this decade;
4) One new US hurricane (1953 Hazel) is suggested to be added into
HURDAT and one is recommended to be removed (1953 Carol);
5) Six US hurricanes are recommended to be upgraded by a Saffir-
Simpson Hurricane Windscale Category and one US hurricane is suggested
to be downgraded a Category;6) A separate study analyzed how the 10 most recent Category 5 hurricanes
would have been represented in the HURDAT of the late 1940s.
the 1926 to 1930 reanalysis data will becoming
available shortly...
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