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Statistical hurricane strength forecasts (HS3 mission)

Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) Intensity V1
atmosphere NASA GHRC_DAAC Level 4 ASCII
In plain English

What it measures. Forecasts of how strong a tropical storm or hurricane is likely to become, generated by a statistical prediction scheme for Atlantic and Pacific storms.

How it's made. Produced by the SHIPS forecasting model, which uses GOES satellite infrared imagery as one of its inputs, during the 2014 HS3 hurricane field campaign.

How & where you'd use it. Supports hurricane intensity forecasting and research into what makes storms strengthen, including the role of dry Saharan air and deep convection.

What's measured

Atmosphere › Atmospheric Pressure › Atmospheric Pressure MeasurementsOceans › Ocean Winds › Wind ShearAtmosphere › Atmospheric Winds › Upper Level Winds › Wind DirectionAtmosphere › Atmospheric Temperature › Upper Air TemperatureAtmosphere › Atmospheric Winds › Wind Dynamics › Wind Shear › Vertical Wind Shear

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2014-03-18 → 2014-09-30
  • Measured byGOES-15 (GOES-15 Imager) · GROUND STATIONS (RAWINSONDES)
  • Processing levelLevel 4
  • Spatial extent-179.11, 7.19, -14.99, 44.51
  • FormatsASCII
  • StatusCOMPLETE

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

The Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) Statistical Hurricane Intensity Prediction Scheme (SHIPS) Intensity dataset was obtained from March 18, 2014 through September 30, 2014 during the Hurricane and Severe Storm Sentinel (HS3) field campaign. Goals for the HS3 field campaign included assessing the relative roles of large-scale environment and storm-scale internal processes, addressing the controversial role of the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) in tropical storm formation and intensification, and the role of deep convection in the inner-core region of storms. The SHIPS model provides tropical storm intensity forecasts for the Atlantic Ocean and the eastern and central North Pacific Ocean storms and invest areas. SHIPS uses GOES infrared imagery as input to the systems. These SHIPS data are available in ASCII format.

Get the data

hs3ships_access.py
import earthaccess
earthaccess.login(strategy="netrc")          # free Earthdata Login

results = earthaccess.search_data(
    short_name="hs3ships",
    version="1",
    bounding_box=(-122.5, 37.2, -121.8, 37.9),  # your area (W,S,E,N)
    temporal=("2024-01-01", "2024-12-31"),       # your dates
)
files = earthaccess.open(results)   # stream straight from GHRC_DAAC
Browsing CMR needs no login. Downloading or streaming bytes needs a free Earthdata Login + the earthaccess package.