A 10,000-Year Global Stochastic Tropical Cyclone Catalog with Wind-Dependent Track Transitions (WHITS)
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Title:A 10,000-Year Global Stochastic Tropical Cyclone Catalog with Wind-Dependent Track Transitions (WHITS)
Abstract:Reliable assessment of tropical cyclone (TC) risk is limited by the brevity and spatial sparsity of the historical record, particularly for the rare, high-intensity landfalls that dominate insured loss. We present WHITS (Wind-focused Hurricane Interactive Track Simulator), a non-parametric semi-Markov track generator that extends the HITS framework of Nakamura et al. (2015) in three ways: transitions between historical track segments are conditioned on local wind speed in addition to position, age, and forward vector; the kernel selection on the comparative-vector term is sharpened to suppress dynamically inconsistent jumps; and a short smoothing window is applied across each transition to remove the position and wind discontinuities reported by downstream surge users. WHITS is fit to the full available best-track record in each of six basins in IBTrACS, extending in the North Atlantic to 1851 and in other basins to the earliest year of reliable best-track data. The resulting 10,000-yr global synthetic catalog reproduces observed track density and the annual hurricane/typhoon-force wind-hit probability across all basins. The catalog is intended for catastrophe-risk applications where a large, low-bias sample of physically plausible tracks is more useful than a small, statistically corrected one.
| Subjects: | Machine Learning (cs.LG); Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph); Applications (stat.AP) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2605.20494 [cs.LG] |
| (or arXiv:2605.20494v1 [cs.LG] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2605.20494
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From: Jennifer Nakamura [view email][v1] Tue, 19 May 2026 20:58:36 UTC (1,652 KB)
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