Question 1: What is the distribution of storm per basin ?
As the first barchart shows, in general, 2014 is the year that has the most storm happened around all the basin. And the year of 2017 has the least of storms number (ignoring the missing data of EP,NA,NI)
If we take a look at the storm happened distribution, we will find the EP (east pacific basin) has the most storms happened in totall. On the contrary, NI(north indonesia basin) has the least number of storms. One more thing need to be mentioned, WP (west pacific basin) had the most amount of storms in 2015 which surpluses any year’s storms number among all the basin.
Question 2: Is there any difference from 2014 to 2017 per one specific basin ?
As the second barchart shows, When considering the percentage of storm number in each basin, it is clearly that Year 2014 and 2016 occupited almost the same propotion in each basin, while year 2015’s proportion is divered among different basins.SP (south pacific basin has the least and the west pacific basin has the most)
Question 3: whether Hurricane has the same distribution as storm in all basin?
TIPS: When wind speed is over 74 mph or faster, the storm could be considered as Hurricane. As meteorologists say campared with intense storm, hurricanes tend to stick around much longer, cover more ground and cause more damage. So it is also important to seperate hurricane charts in our study.
As it shows in the third graph, the hurricanes’ distribution generally looks the same as storm’s, and the total number is smaller than the storms’. The number of Hurricanes were not that high in both EP and SP basin as how storm’s data look. We can concluded that even though there were a lot storms happened in 2014 a lot of them were not that severe.
Sub-Basin: is a structural geologic feature where a larger basin is divided into a series of smaller basins with intervening intrabasinal highs.
Question 4: What is the distribution of storm per sub_basin ?
The distribution of storms happened in subbasin is much smaller than the ones in basin. Almost all the number is around 250, while MM has an extreme high number between 2014 to 2016 among others.
Question 5: Is there any difference from 2014 to 2017 per one specific sub_basin ?
When we look at the “percentage of number of storms”" chart, the proportion of each years in different basin diver a lot. The reason cause this could be the limitation of the geologic feature.
Question 6: Whether Hurricane has the same distribution as storm in all basin?
The chart presents the hurricane numbers in each subbasin is quite interesting. When we compare it with the one on the left of this line, we could find out that most of the storm happened in each basin could be considered as Hurricane. So we could get an conclusion that the subbasin is a geologic feature where hurricane usually happened.