Final Update 12/17

Blog Post #7

I'm very excited to post my final poster. Since the beginning of this process my goals and objectives for my final poster have grown and changed. When I figured out that their wasn't hurricane track data readily available for people to use, I switched my focus to digitizing major hurricanes over the last 20 years. As stated on my poster, I chose a Category 1 and a Category 4 (or 5, depending on what occurred) giving me 2 per year. I chose the years 2003, 2008, 2013, and 2017. The exception was 2013, when there were no hurricanes that touched down in North America greater than a tropical storm. I'm very excited that I was able to digitize so many hurricanes, since it took a lot of leg work! I had to locate the hurricane coordinate points for each hurricane track, enter them into excel, transfer them to ArcMap, and digitize the lines! 

Future work I would like to accomplish would be to compare hurricanes to temperature and wind speed on the ocean to see if there are any correlations!

Update 12/6

Blog Post #6 -

PROGRESS HAS BEEN MADE !!

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Maps from a-h:

    a. Hurricane Andrea (2013)

    b. Hurricane Claudette (2003)

    c. Hurricane Dorian (2013)

    d. Hurricane Gustav (2008)

    e. Hurricane Hanna (2008)

    f. Hurricane Harvey (2017)

    g. Hurricane Isabel (2003)

    h. Hurricane Nate (2017)

I finally was able to get my excel sheet into ArcGIS correctly, I then converted the points into lines (which is what you see here!)

For wrapping up, I will be changing the map colors and finalizing the map layouts for the poster!! 

Update 11/27

Blog Post #5 - Update

This weeks update is small, I have found all of my data and downloaded everything, since we have just gotten back from break I haven't done much with my new data.


The only snag I have run into is that I have to manually type all of the coordinate points for each hurricane track into an excel file to upload to ArcGIS. This is this weeks battle, once I get this done, I will enter it into ArcGIS and start creating the hurricane lines.

Here's an animation of Hurricane Harvey, one of the hurricanes I will be looking at and drawing into ArcMap.