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Hurricane data
Description
Listing of the position and windspeed of hurricanes from 1970 through 2011.
Data is taken from the National Hurricane Center, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association. A description of the data as well as data for storms in other regions may be found here: IBTrACS.
The fields "SerialNumber", "Basin", "SubBasin", "Nature", "Pressure", "Center", "WindPercentile", "PressurePercentile" and "TrackType" have been removed.
Year: Integer from 1971 through 2011
Number: Integer used to designate the hurricanes in a particular year
Name: The name of the hurricane
ISO_Time: The time the observation was made
Latitude: Latitude where the observation was made
Longitutde: Longitude where the observation was made
Wind: windspeed measured knots (kt)
Pressure: atmospheric pressue measured in millibars (mb)
Usage
data(Hurricane)
Format
An object of class spec_tbl_df (inherits from tbl_df, tbl, data.frame) with 43122 rows and 8 columns.