Blog Post #4 - Update
Over the past few weeks, I have successfully downloaded sea surface temperatures from NASA's website! Big accomplishment!!I ran into trouble with my hurricane track data, a lot of the attribute fields had values of "-999", which Dr. M let me know meant there was no data. Running into this problem was frustrating, so I moved on to try and find new data, which wasn't as easy a task as I thought it would be.
Since then, I have located data for hurricane tracks, I will have to load it into an excel file and then upload that data to GIS, these are point locations, so I will also have to add the polylines to show the full track.
Now that I have worked through all of the technical issues, over the next 2 weeks I will be uploading my data and synthesizing the polylines on top of the temperature data.
In the end, I plan on now having new deliverable's.
I would like to take 2005, 2010, and 2015 hurricane seasons (July-October), synthesize at least 1 hurricane (depending on how long this takes per track) maybe 2, and compare these to each other.
Ultimately, if I am correct, we should see an increase in hurricane duration, and an increase in category type AND an increase in sea surface temperatures.
Its great to hear that you have found data! I think that its a good idea looking at 5 year periods for hurricane seasons.
ReplyDeleteThis sounds like a good plan! I am glad that you have figured out how to narrow down your data and analyze the data. I think that your plan to use hurricane seasons from every 5 years is smart because focusing in on these 3 times will not only make your life easier but will also be able to display any significant changes throughout the seasons.
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