Satellite imagery animation for all TCs since 1983

Calasanjy · #1 Postby **Calasanjy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:07 pm

I just hit pay dirt in my quest to find imagery of historical tropical cyclones. This site will provide you with MPEG movies of all tropical cyclones since 1983:

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/rsad/b1utc/hurricane-movies.html#

Unfortunately, some of the Southern Hemisphere imagery is not of the greatest quality, but it's about the best I've been able to find for Southwest Indian Ocean storms. I believe this was already mentioned on another thread, but Digital Typhoon: http://agora.ex.nii.ac.jp/digital-typhoon/index.html.en has high-quality animations of typhoons and Australia-region cyclones since 1983.

Calasanjy · #2 Postby **Calasanjy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 2:54 pm

Be advised that the Southern Hemisphere tropical cyclones do not follow the JTWC numbering system but start at 1 for the first storm in each year. Also, it seems that the images lose resolution when the storms pass over open water but become sharper when they near a major landmass, such as Australia or Madagascar.

#3 Postby **P.K.** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 4:13 pm

It is the BoM BT from memory I think on there hence the numbering system.

FrontRunner · #4 Postby **FrontRunner** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 7:48 pm

Okay, someone please help out a computer illiterate individual....

I save the MPEG-2 files to my computer and try to open them w/ Windows Media Player. It sort of starts up, I can see the first frame of the video, but then it bombs and I get one of those "Windows Media Player has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience." messages. It's like it can load the video, but not run it for some reason. Help?!

Jim Cantore · #5 Postby **Jim Cantore** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:39 pm

Thanks for posting that, I'll be looking at that all night.

#6 Postby **AnnularCane** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:44 pm

Cool site. Only problem is, I can run one video, but then when I try to see another storm, it won't run it. If I want to see another one, I have to get out of the site and come back later.

Calasanjy · #7 Postby **Calasanjy** » Mon Jan 08, 2007 9:54 pm

Cool site. Only problem is, I can run one video, but then when I try to see another storm, it won't run it. If I want to see another one, I have to get out of the site and come back later.

OK, at first I was confused because Windows Media Player wouldn't run any more videos, but all I had to do to get it to play was cancel out of the player and click on the link for the video again. See if this works for you.

#8 Postby **Hybridstorm_November2001** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 10:15 am

A fantastic find indeed. :bday:

tbstorm · #9 Postby **tbstorm** » Sun Jan 14, 2007 8:52 pm

When I try to play them in Windows Media Player, all I see is static.

Any ideas?

Satellite imagery animation for all TCs since 1983

Satellite imagery animation for all TCs since 1983

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