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Dataset & Documentation Files Updates:
2023-12-04: The 5-Day Predictor Files for the Atlantic (AL), Central Pacific (CP), and Eastern North Pacific (EP) basins have been updated to include new data for cases up to and including the 2022 season and each file has also been error-corrected, they are now available to download from the Downloads section below (5-Day Only).
2023-10-04: The 5-Day Predictor Files for the Western North Pacific (WP), North Indian Ocean (IO), and Southern Hemisphere (SH) basins have been updated to include data through the 2021 season and they are now available to download from the Downloads section below (5-Day Only).
2023-10-03: The File Format and Predictor Descriptions document has been updated for 2023 and is now available to download as a PDF document from the Downloads section below.
2023-06-29: The Developmental Data page has been updated with new SHIPS predictor files through 2022 for the Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific basins (7-Day Only).
2023-06-21: The Developmental Dataset is being updated with data through the 2022 season and will be uploaded to the Developmental Data page of this site and made available to download soon. Only the 7-Day AL, CP, EP data files including 2022 data will be uploaded. No future AL, CP, EP basins’ dataset updates will include any new 5-Day files, beginning with the AL, CP, EP basins’ 2022 dataset updates onward. *UPDATE: The 5-Day data files for all basins will now continue being updated annually and available to retrieve from the “Downloads” section below.
2022-05-04: The Developmental Data page has been updated with new SHIPS predictor files through 2021 for the Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific basins. All dataset files have had their extension format changed from “.DAT” to “.TXT”. However the character encoding format of the data in these files did not change and continues to be written in the Unicode UTF-8-BOM standard.
2022-03-07: New 5-day and 7-day SHIPS predictor files have been created for the 2020 seasons of the Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific basins and are now available to download from this page. New 5-day SHIPS predictor files for the 2020 seasons of the Western North Pacific, Northern Indian Ocean and Southern Hemisphere basins have been created and are now available to download from this page. The previously experimental data used for the last release’s 2019 season cases have been fully replaced by the finalized Best Track data. The IR satellite predictors for 2019 were also updated using post-processed satellite imagery. A new 2022 version of the file format and descriptions document is now available to download in PDF document format.
2020-04-03: New 7-day SHIPS predictor files are now available for download and include data from 1982-2019 for the Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific basins.
2020-04-02: The 2019 Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific SHIPS predictor files uploaded yesterday were incomplete and have been replaced by the complete files. The corrected files are now available for download below. Please read the 2019 data disclaimer at the bottom of this page before downloading the new files.
2020-04-01: The Atlantic, Central Pacific, and Eastern North Pacific SHIPS predictor files have been updated through 2019. Please read the 2019 data disclaimer at the bottom of this page before downloading the new files.
2019-06-27: The Western North Pacific, Southern Hemisphere, and North Indian Ocean SHIPS predictor files have been updated through 2017.
2018-07-27: The Atlantic, Eastern North Pacific, and Central Pacific SHIPS predictor files have been updated through 2017.
2017-01-24: The Atlantic, Eastern North Pacific, and Central Pacific SHIPS predictor files have been updated through 2016.
2017-01-20: The 2017 File Format and Predictor Descriptions document has been added.
2017-01-19: 2016 files for the Atlantic, Eastern Pacific and Central Pacific basins have been added.
7-Day SHIPS Predictor File Downloads
Atlantic* 7-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
Central Pacific* 7-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
Eastern North Pacific* 7-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
*NOTICE*: All 7-Day files above this line were last updated: 2023-10-04 at 1900 UTC
5-Day SHIPS Predictor File Downloads
Atlantic* 5-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
Central Pacific* 5-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
Eastern North Pacific* 5-day predictor for 1982 to 2022 is available here.
Western North Pacific* 5-day predictor for 1990 to 2021 is available here.
North Indian Ocean* 5-day predictor for 1990 to 2021 is available here.
Southern Hemisphere* 5-day predictor for 1998 to 2021 is available here.
*NOTICE*: The AL, CP, EP 5-Day dataset files above this line were last updated: 2023-12-04 at 2300 UTC
File Format and Predictor Descriptions (2023) PDF document is available for download here.
*NOTICE*: This PDF document was last updated: 2023-10-03 at 1900 UTC
*NOTICE*: All download links on this page were last verified as functional on 2023-12-05 at 0100 UTC.
*GENERAL DATA DISCLAIMER: These environmental data and related items of information have not been formally disseminated by NOAA and do not represent and should not be construed to represent any agency determination, view, or policy.