Bangladesh - Tropical Cyclone Historical Catalogue - Met Office

Gridded data for major historical tropical cyclones over Bangladesh.

Each tropical cyclone has a 9 member ensemble, and comprises of timeseries and footprints at resolutions of 4.4km and 1.5km based on the Met Office Unified Model dynamically downscaling ECMWF ERA5 data.

There are 12 available variables, including: air temperature, maximum wind gust speed, minimum air pressure at sea level and precipitation amounts, available at a range of temporal scales, including model instantaneous values, and hourly and daily aggregations.

The catalogue contains the following tropical cyclones (landfall date): BOB01 (30/04/1991 00:00), BOB07 (25/11/1995 09:00), TC01B (19/05/1997 15:00), Akash (14/05/2007 18:00), Sidr (15/11/2007 18:00), Rashmi (26/10/2008 21:00), Aila (25/05/2009 06:00), Viyaru (16/05/2013 09:00), Roanu (21/05/2016 12:00), Mora (30/05/2017 03:00), Fani (04/05/2019 06:00), Bulbul (09/11/2019 18:00)..

See the technical documentation for further details, including a full list of variables, and the data domains.

Note that this data is currently a pre-release version 0.2, and subject to change following integration testing.

This data is part of the Oasis Platform for Climate and Catastrophe Risk Assessment – Asia (https://www.international-climate-initiative.com/en/nc/details/project/oasis-platform-for-climate-and-catastrophe-risk-assessment-asia-18_II_165-3018), a project funded by the International Climate Initiative (IKI), supported by the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety, based on a decision of the Germany Bundestag

Data Download

netCDF files are packaged into gzip compressed tar archives. To un-compress and un-tar data, use tar -xvzf file.tar.gz. Alternatively, 7-zip can handle tar.gz archives.

Oasis format files are zip archives.

Data and Resources

Documentation Download documentation

Cyclone BOB01 1991 Time SeriesNetCDF
30/04/1991
Cyclone BOB07 1995 Time SeriesNetCDF
25/11/1995
Cyclone TC01B 1997 Time SeriesNetCDF
19/05/1997
Cyclone Akash 2007 Time SeriesNetCDF
14/05/2007
Cyclone Sidr 2007 Time SeriesNetCDF
15/11/2007
Cyclone Rashmi 2008 Time SeriesNetCDF
26/10/2008
Cyclone Aila 2009 Time Series NetCDF
25th May 2009
Cyclone Roanu 2016 Time SeriesNetCDF
21/05/2016
Cyclone Viyaru 2013 Time SeriesNetCDF
16/05/2013
Cyclone Mora 2017 Time SeriesNetCDF
30/05/2017
Cyclone Fani 2019 Time SeriesNetCDF
04/05/2019
Cyclone Bulbul 2019 Time SeriesTAR
09/11/2019
Ensemble Footprints - Wind Speed of Gust - ...NetCDF
1Hr Max in m/s
Ensemble Footprints - Air Pressure at Sea Level - ...NetCDF
1Hr Min in Pa
Ensemble Footprints - X Wind - Hourly ...NetCDF
T1Hr Point in m/s
Ensemble Footprints - Y Wind - Hourly ...NetCDF
T1Hr Point in m/s
Oasis format files (probabilistic set)ZIP
Oasis format files (set 2, probabilistic set)
Oasis format files (independent set)ZIP
Oasis format files (set 1, independent set)

Additional Info

Field	Value
Author	Hamish Steptoe
Maintainer	Met Office
Version	0.2
Last Updated	May 13, 2020, 09:50 (Etc/UTC)
Created	October 3, 2019, 15:37 (Etc/UTC)
Time range	From: 04/30/1991 To: 11/12/2019
Origin Places	South-eastern Asia, Bangladesh
Price, £	-

Customer reviews

Jamal Khan 15.05.2020 22:25

Cyclone bulbul

Thanks for the data availability. Apparently, cyclone bulbul 2019 timeseries archive is corrupted.

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