Papers, Data, and Graphics Pertaining to Tropical Cyclone Trends and Variability
Excel spreadsheet with Atlantic sea surface temperature and hurricane power dissipation, 1949-2007
(Note: The smoothed data have been smoothed using a 1-3-4-3-1 filter, and so are only given for 1951-2005)
Animated graph of
Atlantic SST and hurricane power dissipation. 
This chart is based on the dataset from my 2005 Nature
paper and updated with two additional years of data. To produce the chart,
the temperature index was converted to Fahrenheit. The chart was produced by Clear the Air. For high-resolution non-watermarked
versions, download from ftp://70.86.53.74. User: ClearTheAir. Password:
hurricane.
Click here for an updated graph showing Atlantic tropical cyclone power dissipation and Main Development Region (MDR) sea surface temperature (SST) from 1970 to 2008, inclusive. Both quantities have been smoothed using a 1-3-4-3-1 filter. The SST is shown in blue, while the power dissipation index (PDI) is shown in green. Here the MDR is defined as the region bounded by 6N and 18N, and 20W and 60W; the SST data is the HADISST1 data set from the U.K. Hadley Center, and it has been averaged from August through October of each year. The two time series are correlated with an r2 of 0.91.
