ATCF tropical cyclone identifier
ID atcf_storm_id
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Identifier of a tropical cyclone in the Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecasting system used by the US National Hurricane Center and the Joint Typhoon Warning Center, and in HURDAT2 and IBTrACS. It has eight characters, the basin (AL Atlantic, EP eastern Pacific, CP central Pacific, WP western Pacific, IO north Indian Ocean, SH southern hemisphere, SL south Atlantic), the cyclone number of the season and the year, for example AL122005 for Hurricane Katrina. Numbers 80 to 99 are training storms and invests, southern hemisphere storms use the season year, and ATCF file names write the code in lower case.
- Categories
- Environment (protected areas, biodiversity, water, weather, emissions, waste), Scientific
- Countries
- Global (not tied to a country)
- Languages
- Common to most languages
- Quality
- 80/100 · missing: mapping (Wikidata, Schema.org, ...), detector coverage
- Metacrafter rules
- no detection rule yet
- Supported by tools
- no tool record lists this type yet
Regular expression
^(?:AL|EP|CP|WP|IO|SH|SL)(?:0[1-9]|[1-9][0-9])(?:18[5-9][0-9]|19[0-9]{2}|20[0-9]{2})$Python re syntax.
Examples
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| AL122005 | Hurricane Katrina (2005); HURDAT2 Atlantic |
| AL092005 | Hurricane Irene (2005); HURDAT2 Atlantic |
| EP202015 | Hurricane Patricia (2015); HURDAT2 northeast Pacific |
| WP312013 | Typhoon Haiyan (2013); IBTrACS |
| AL011851 | First storm of the 1851 Atlantic season; HURDAT2 Atlantic |
| 31W invalid | JTWC number of Typhoon Haiyan, without the basin prefix and the year |
| AL002005 invalid | Cyclone number 00 is not used |
Translations
| Language | Name | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Russian | Идентификатор тропического циклона ATCF | Идентификатор тропического циклона в системе ATCF Национального центра ураганов и JTWC (США) — код бассейна, номер циклона в сезоне и год, например AL122005. |
Sources
- doc: https://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/atcf/README
- doc: https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/data/hurdat/hurdat2-format-nov2019.pdf
Use this record
- Page URL:
https://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/atcf_storm_id - JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
- Improve it: edit
data/datatypes/any/environment/atcf_storm_id.yamlon GitHub