Preserving a Flood of Data: Hurricane Harvey 2017 Data Archive

The 2017 Atlantic hurricane season was among the busiest on record, producing 18 tropical depressions, 18 tropical storms, 10 hurricanes that occurred in succession, and 23 separate landfalls by Atlantic named storms. Six of the ten hurricanes further  strengthened into major hurricanes. Three of these were Harvey (TX-LA-MS), Irma (FL-GA-NC), and Maria (Puerto Rico and other Caribbean islands). These three were so devastating, and so close to each other in time, that the National Science Foundation (NSF) urged the research community to apply for NSF RAPID grants to study these hurricanes and their impacts, to better understand how these occurred. A team led by David Tarboton, David Maidment, Jerad Bales, and Ray Idaszak received funds [1] to build a storm and flood data archive for Harvey and Irma, to be housed on HydroShare, and managed by CUAHSI. The project period is from October 2017 to September 2018. This presentation summarizes work to date (April 2018) on the Harvey part of the collection.

The downloadable datasets are accessed via HydroShare. Some large datasets are hosted on RENCI iRODS and the Univ of Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) facilities.
- Use the Hurricane Harvey 2017 Story Map [2] for contextual access to the data, via links in the side panel on each tab. 
- For file browser access to the archive, visit the Hurricanes data collection on HydroShare [3].
- Visit the CUAHSI project page [4] to learn more about the project, and for access to Irma and Maria data.

[1] NSF RAPID Grant [https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761673]
[2] Hurricane Harvey 2017 Story Map [http://arcg.is/001jje]
[3 Hurricane collection root on HydroShare [https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/2836494ee75e43a9bfb647b37260e461/]
[4] CUAHSI project landing page [https://www.cuahsi.org/projects/hurricanes-2017-data-archive]

2017年大西洋飓风季节堪称历史上最为繁忙的一次，共产生了18次热带低压、18次热带风暴、10次依次发生的飓风，以及23次由大西洋命名的风暴单独登陆的事件。在这10次飓风中，有6次进一步增强为重大飓风。其中，哈维（德克萨斯州-路易斯安那州-密西西比州）、艾尔玛（佛罗里达州-乔治亚州-北卡罗来纳州）和玛利亚（波多黎各及其他加勒比岛屿）这三次飓风破坏力极大，且发生时间极为接近。鉴于此，美国国家科学基金会（NSF）敦促科研界申请NSF RAPID紧急研究资助，以研究这些飓风及其影响，以期更深入地理解其发生机制。由大卫·塔博顿、大卫·梅伊蒙特、杰拉德·贝勒斯和雷·伊达萨克领导的研究团队获得了资助[1]，用于构建哈维和艾尔玛的暴风雨及洪水数据档案，该档案将存放在HydroShare上，并由CUAHSI进行管理。项目周期为2017年10月至2018年9月。此次展示总结了截至2018年4月对哈维部分数据集的研究工作。

可下载的数据集通过HydroShare访问。一些大型数据集托管在RENCI iRODS和德克萨斯大学高级计算中心（TACC）设施上。
- 使用2017年哈维飓风故事地图[2]通过侧边栏中的链接进行数据背景访问。
- 为访问存档的文件浏览器，请访问HydroShare上的飓风数据集合[3]。
- 访问CUAHSI项目页面[4]了解更多关于项目的信息，以及获取艾尔玛和玛利亚数据。

[1] NSF RAPID资助[https://nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1761673]
[2] 2017年哈维飓风故事地图[http://arcg.is/001jje]
[3] HydroShare上的飓风数据集合根目录[https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/2836494ee75e43a9bfb647b37260e461/]
[4] CUAHSI项目首页[https://www.cuahsi.org/projects/hurricanes-2017-data-archive]