HINT Dataset for Climate Resilience

The Hurricane IBTrACS with NOAA Tide gauge (HINT) dataset is an observational, event-centered coastal water-level dataset that integrates hurricane track information from the International Best Track Archive for Climate Stewardship (IBTrACS) with tide gauge observations from NOAA CO-OPS stations along the U.S. East Coast. The dataset is designed to support reproducible analysis of hurricane-induced coastal water-level variability and storm surge impacts by aligning storm and station observations at consistent temporal intervals.

HINT preserves the full set of IBTrACS variables for each storm timestamp and augments them with derived station-level attributes, including NOAA station identifiers, great-circle distance between storm center and station, observed water level relative to Mean Sea Level (MSL), measurement standard deviation, and a binary availability flag. The dataset includes hurricane events occurring after 1976 and provides raw tide gauge data in compressed form to ensure traceability and transparency. A single processed file is supplied as the authoritative, analysis-ready dataset.

The dataset is intended for use in coastal hazards research, environmental data science, and climate and extreme-event studies, as well as for educational applications involving spatiotemporal data integration and analysis. HINT enables comparative analyses across storms and stations, supports statistical and machine-learning-based modeling of coastal water-level response to hurricanes, and facilitates the evaluation of spatial attenuation of storm surge effects in regions with heterogeneous observational coverage.