Description: Time-enabled points layer for
hurricanes within 200km of Atlantic Canada provinces between 1980 and
2021. Includes attribute information of highest recorded wind speeds (per
storm), the
Multivariate ENSO (El Nino Southern Oscillation) Index values at that
time, and the distance between the point and the nearest provincial
capital.
Copyright Text: Adapted from: IBTrACS.NA.list.v04r00.points shapefile (NOAA, Retrieved January 14, 2022 from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/data/international-best-track-archive-for-climate-stewardship-ibtracs/v04r00/access/shapefile/), Multivariate ENSO Index Version 2 (MEI.v2) table (NOAA PSL, Retreived March 3, 2022 from https://psl.noaa.gov/enso/mei/), and CanVec Administrative Features shapefile (Natural Resources Canada, Retrieved January 14, 2022 from https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/306e5004-534b-4110-9feb-58e3a5c3fd97).
Description: 200km buffer around the Canadian Atlantic provinces: Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Prince Edward Island.This
constituted the study area for a semester final project in the SAIT BGIS
program.
Copyright Text: Buffer created from: Administrative Boundaries in Canada - CanVec Series - Administrative Features (2017). Natural Resources Canada. Retrieved January 14, 2022.