User’s Guide
Foreword: A note to SWIFT-OBT users
This User’s Guide is provided as an aid to users of the SAMURAI Winds and Intensity in Forecasting Time Objective Best Track (SWIFT-OBT) system. SWIFT-OBT is an integrated observational analysis which provides forecaster support products for the National Hurricane Center. More details about the SWIFT-OBT project can be found on the SWIFT-OBT Project website.
It is important to note here that SWIFT-OBT is still under active development. This documentation describes the 0.1 release dated 2024-05-01. Intermediate releases may include bug fixes.
SWIFT-OBT TERMS OF USE - IMPORTANT!
Copyright 2024, UCAR/NCAR, CSU, UM, NOAA
Citations
The citation for this User’s Guide should be:
Vigh, J. L., Bell, Michael M., Zhang, Jun A., Hendricks, Eric A., Rozoff, Christopher M., DesRosier, Alex J., DeHart, Jen C., 2024: The SWIFT-OBT, Version 0.1 User’s Guide. Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Available here.
Acknowledgments
This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. 1852977. This material is based upon work supported by the Hurricanes and Oceans Testbed Program within the NOAA/OAR Weather Program Office under Award No. NA22OAR4590527.