Hurricane Activity and Sea Surface Temps
Introduction:
Over the past fifty years we have seen a dramatic rise in sea surface temperatures. With the rise in temperatures, comes the inevitable warming of the ice caps in the north, this causes sea levels to rise. A major problem with sea level rise is that a coastal community becomes more vulnerable to flooding. In the past fifty years it appears that the number of high category hurricanes in the US have increased. These storms have devastating affects on coastal communities, including storm surge flooding. Specifically, we have seen an increase in devastating high category hurricanes in the southeast region of the United States.
Objectives:
Methodology:
For this project, I plan to use downloadable GIS shapefiles to create maps in ArcGIS.
Deliverable's:
Multiple maps will be created from this research project in order to show the progression over the past 50 years of hurricane activity and sea surface temperature. This data will provide information on whether there is an increase in higher category hurricanes with the increase in sea surface temperatures.
Work Plan:
Week of Oct. 9th: Finish Project Proposal
Week of Oct. 16th: Continue to download data that will be beneficial to this research. Blog Post 2.
Week of Oct. 23rd: Create maps of a few years that have good data (Years TBD).
Week of Oct. 30th: Continue creation of maps. Process of elimination. Blog Post 3.
Week of Nov. 6th: Start to edit maps design (layout, colors, etc.) Blog Post 4.
Week of Nov. 13th: Begin analysis on correlation. Works-in-Progress Presentation.
Week of Nov. 20th: Thanksgiving Break - begin to think about final Poster
Week of Nov. 27th: Finish up analysis. Stark to design Poster. Blog Post 5.
Week of Dec. 4th: Finalize poster. Blog 6.
Week of Dec. 11th: Hand in final poster. Blog Post 7.
Data Sources:
Current Sources in use:
Knapp, K. R., M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and C. J. Neumann, 2010:
The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): Unifying tropical cyclone best track data.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 363-376.
doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1
https://www.wunderground.com/education/webster.asp
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Objectives:
- Map sea surface temperatures and category 3&4 hurricane activity in the Southeastern portion of the United States - including approx. 50 years ago compared to 25 years ago and current 2017 data.
- Assess if there is a relationship between increased surface temperatures and number of Cat 3&4 hurricanes in that region.
Methodology:
For this project, I plan to use downloadable GIS shapefiles to create maps in ArcGIS.
Deliverable's:
Multiple maps will be created from this research project in order to show the progression over the past 50 years of hurricane activity and sea surface temperature. This data will provide information on whether there is an increase in higher category hurricanes with the increase in sea surface temperatures.
Work Plan:
Week of Oct. 9th: Finish Project Proposal
Week of Oct. 16th: Continue to download data that will be beneficial to this research. Blog Post 2.
Week of Oct. 23rd: Create maps of a few years that have good data (Years TBD).
Week of Oct. 30th: Continue creation of maps. Process of elimination. Blog Post 3.
Week of Nov. 6th: Start to edit maps design (layout, colors, etc.) Blog Post 4.
Week of Nov. 13th: Begin analysis on correlation. Works-in-Progress Presentation.
Week of Nov. 20th: Thanksgiving Break - begin to think about final Poster
Week of Nov. 27th: Finish up analysis. Stark to design Poster. Blog Post 5.
Week of Dec. 4th: Finalize poster. Blog 6.
Week of Dec. 11th: Hand in final poster. Blog Post 7.
Data Sources:
Current Sources in use:
Knapp, K. R., M. C. Kruk, D. H. Levinson, H. J. Diamond, and C. J. Neumann, 2010:
The International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS): Unifying tropical cyclone best track data.
Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 91, 363-376.
doi:10.1175/2009BAMS2755.1 https://www.wunderground.com/education/webster.asp
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Hi Katie,
ReplyDeleteThis is a really good topic especially considering the recent weather events that have been taking place. The first suggestion that I have is actually a formatting one. Your blog looks really good but the white font makes it a little difficult for me to read so you may want to think about choosing a more distinct color. You may want to go into further detail about how you plan to utilize GIS in order to compare your maps, such as using a correlation tool, but overall this looks good!
It may be difficult to find sea temperature data. Maybe try to find non profits who have gathered some data about ocean temperature on a small scale.
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