Global - Hurricane International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) - NOAA

IBTrACS is a collection of best track data from numerous agencies. The data have been objectively combined to facilitate analysis. It does not represent any reanalysis of satellite or surface data. The IBTrACS project:

Contains the most complete global set of historical tropical cyclones available

Combines information from numerous tropical cyclone datasets

Simplifies inter-agency comparisons by providing storm data from multiple sources in one place

Provides data in popular formats to facilitate analysis

Checks the quality of storm inventories, positions, pressures, and wind speeds, passing the information on to the user