hurricane {mverse}

Data on Atlantic hurricanes in the U.S. between 1950 and 2012.

Description

A dataset for the study conducted by Jung et al. (2014) in doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402786111Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes.

Usage

hurricane

Format

A data frame with 94 rows and 12 variables:

Year

Year in which the hurricane landed on U.S.

Name

Name of the hurricane.

MasFem

Femininity index of the hurricane name collected by Jung et al. (1 - very masculine; 11 - very feminine).

MinPressure_before

Minimum pressure of the hurricane at the time of landfall in the U.S. (original).

Minpressure_Updated_2014

Minimum pressure of the hurricane at the time of landfall in the U.S. (updated).

Gender_MF

Gender indicator for the hurricane name based on MasFem index (1 - MasFem > 6; 0 otherwise).

Category

Hurricane category on a scale of 1 to 5, with 5 being the most severe.

alldeaths

Number of fatalities.

NDAM

Normalized damage in 2013 U.S. million dollars.

Elapsed.Yrs

Time since hurricane.

Source

Source from where the data was gathered.

HighestWindSpeed

Maximum wind speed.

MasFem_MTUrk

Femininity index of the hurricane name collected by Simonsohn et al.

NDAM15

Normalized damage in 2015 U.S. million dollars.

Details

The dataset was collected by Jung et al. in their study Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes. Their study didn't include hurricanes Katrina and Audrey which were deemed as outliers. Simonsohn et al. collected the extra data for doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0912-zSpecification curve analysis including an additional femininity index based on an MTUrk survey and updated normalized damage amount in 2015 U.S. dollars.

This dataset includes data prepared by Jung et al. (2014) as well as those prepared by Simonsohn et al. (2020). Specifically, all data on Katrina and Audrey are from Simonsohn et al. (2020) except minimum pressure updated in 2014. They were retrieved from Continental United States Hurricane Impacts/Landfalls 1851-2021 table maintained by U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maximum wind speed, femininity index from MTUrk survey, and 2015 damage amounts are also from Simonsohn et al. (2020).

Source

Kiju Jung, Sharon Shavitt, Madhu Viswanathan, and Joseph M. Hilbe. (2014). "Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(24), 8782-8787. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1402786111

Uri Simonsohn, Joseph P. Simmons, and Leif D. Nelson. (2020). “Specification curve analysis” Nature Human Behaviour, 4, 1208–14. doi: 10.1038/s41562-020-0912-z