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SUBMITTER: Bloemendaal N
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7005259 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Scientific data 20200206 1
Over the past few decades, the world has seen substantial tropical cyclone (TC) damages, with the 2017 Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria entering the top-5 costliest Atlantic hurricanes ever. Calculating TC risk at a global scale, however, has proven difficult given the limited temporal and spatial information on TCs across much of the global coastline. Here, we present a novel database on TC characteristics on a global scale using a newly developed synthetic resampling algorithm we call STORM ( ...[more]