The hail database is much worse in terms of quality than the tropical
cyclone data base, but it is good enough to build fairly good relationships between necessary environmental conditions and events.
The Australian BoM had satellite data that was used in the tropical meteorological centers after 1968 (see Holland, G. J., 1981: On the quality of the Australian tropical
cyclone data base.
Not exact matches
Perhaps the best existing analysis of South Pacific tropical
cyclones is that of Kossin et al. (2013), who homogenized the satellite
data record from 1982 to 2009 to create a temporally consistent record, and compared that to the problematic historical
data base of storms over the world.
While it is true that one published report indicates decreasing global accumulated
cyclone energy (ACE), that report was
based on a hurricane
data set known to have strong biases outside the North Atlantic region.
Jimmy can't say much about on
cyclones based on very short term
data and simple physical memes repeated endlessly.
The Potential Intensity (PI) of tropical
cyclones (Emanuel, 2003) can be computed from observational
data based primarily on vertical profiles of temperature and humidity (see Box 3.5) and on SSTs.