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!
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