page_title: Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project
section_title: Future efforts in other basins
hierarchical_section_title: Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project / Progress / Future efforts in other basins
caption_attribution_description: English: Typhoon Freda on March 15, 1981
context_page_description: The Atlantic hurricane reanalysis project of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration seeks to correct and add new information about past North Atlantic hurricanes. It was started around 2000 to update HURDAT, the official hurricane database for the Atlantic Basin, which has become outdated since its creation due to various systematic errors introduced into the database over time. This effort has involved reanalyses of ship observations from the International Comprehensive Ocean-Atmosphere Data Set as well as reanalyses done by other researchers over the years. It has been ongoing as of 2016, and should last another four years.
context_section_description: There is agreement within tropical cyclone circles of doing an "Atlantic-style" reanalysis for other ocean basins.  Some efforts are underway to start similar reanalyses across the western and eastern north Pacific Ocean, but are likely to take longer to complete. This is due to the need for coordination between the multiple Regional Specialized Meteorological Centres, which have the responsibility for tracking and forecasting tropical cyclones across that ocean. During February 2016, the NHC released the 1959 Mexico hurricane's reanalysis, which was the first system outside the Atlantic basin to be reassessed using methods developed for the Atlantic reanalysis process.
caption: Typhoon Freda, in Joint Typhoon Warning Center database as 100 knots (190 km/h) while Dvorak estimates were 115 knots (213 km/h)
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