D. Finding Data

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Hurricane Floyd Data

Hurricane Floyd

Finding Hurricane Floyd

  • If you are not already there, go to the SCOOP Website
  • Go to the Data page
  • Notice that you can search for storms by name or year and you can search for collections
  • Search for hurricane Floyd, but do not put a year 
  D1. How many storms come up?
  • Notice the key at the top of the page 
  D2. Is there data for any of these storms?

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  • Click on the plot icon next to Floyd (1999)
  • On the right side of the page, change Draw Bounding Box to Show Point Information
  • Choose the point where the storm changes from a tropical storm to a category 1 hurricane 
  D3. What is the pressure of Floyd at this point?

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  • Go back to the SCOOP storm search results page with the Floyd storms
  • Click on the list icon next to Floyd (1999)
  • Notice there is a list of all the points with the statistics at each point 
  D4. How many separate times does Floyd turn into a category 3 hurricane?

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  • Go back to the SCOOP storm search results page with the Floyd storms
  • Click on the globe icon (the Google Earth link) next to Floyd (1999)
  • If you do not have Google Earth, you can download it for free by going to the Google Earth Website
  • All the paths of the storms during the 1999 hurricane season will show
  • Under the Places section on the left side of the page, make sure that the Temporary Places folder is expanded
  • Expand the 1999 Storms folder
  • Click the checkmark next to the 1999 Storms to uncheck all storms
  • Scroll down to Floyd and check the box next to Floyd
  • Expand the Floyd folder
  • Click on the date links to see statistics about the storm at that time
  • Click on the date link 1999-09-11 12Z 
  D5. On this date, what category hurricane was Floyd?
  D6. What was the wind speed?
  • You can continue looking at all of the storms' tracks from 1999 or go back to the SCOOP page and look up other years


Quick Search by Collection

  • Go back to the Data page
  • Notice the box, Quick Search by Collection, on the left of the Quick Search by Storm box
  • Enter in Wind for the keyword and choose Data Collection Name for context
  • Press Go!
  • All the collections with the word “wind” in their name came up
  • Click on the first one: “Bedford Institute of Oceanography WaveWatch 3 (WW3) Extended Lat/Lon…” 
  D7. What is the location of coverage for this collection?


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