Storm tracks based on wave heights from LOPS WAVEWATCH III hindcast and ERA5 reanalysis, years 1991-2024

Sea State

These storm tracks were obtained from tracking the maxima of significant wave heights. The method was adapted from storm tracking methods that typically use sea level pressure.

Data and resources

Processed data

This file contains tracks of storms following the maxima of wave heights in the LOPS 2025 (doi: 10.12770/87209a81-2c27-452b-86ae-b9c2cc4d43a9) - 232 MB

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Processed data

Storm tracks 1991-2024 from ERA5 - 209 MB

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Unnamed resource

tracking tools for model output this is a tar.gz archive. See github for updates: https://github.com/ardhuin/DetectHsStorm - 3 MB

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Quality controlled data

top500stormsmodelonly - 76 KB

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DOI of the product

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Seanoe

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Additional information

Temporal extent	1991-01-01 – 2024-12-31
Date (publication)	2024-03-10
Date (revision)	2026-05-29
Status	onGoing
Update frequency	asNeeded
Metadata language	en
License	CC-BY (Creative Commons - Attribution)
Source metadata	ISO 19115 XML
Last updated	2026-11-04
Created	2026-11-04
API	package_show