IN MATLAB, PLEASE CAN YOU SOLVE THIS IN A SIMPLE WAY

The American National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) measures the intensity of a hurricane season with the accumulated cyclone energy (ACE) index. The ACE for a season is the sum of the ACE for each tropical storm with winds exceeding 35 knots (65 km/h). The maximum sustained winds (measured in knots) in the storm are measured or approximated every six hours. The values are squared and summed over the duration of the storm. The total is divided by 10,000, to make the parameter easier to use.

ACE=2max / 104

This parameter is related to the energy of the storm, since kinetic energy is proportional to velocity squared. However, it does not take into account the size of the storm, which would be necessary for a true total energy estimate. Reliable storm data have been collected in the Atlantic Ocean since 1950 and are shown in the table below. These data may also be available to you from your instructor as an EXCEL worksheet, ACE_5th.xlsx, (or ace_data_5th.dat) and was extracted from the Accumulated Cyclone Energy article in Wikipedia. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accumulated_cyclone_energy). It was collected by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/hrd/tcfaq/E11.html).

1. Download the datafile ace_data_5th.dat to the current folder for Lab 4.Load the ace_data_5th.dat file into the script for Lab 4.

2. Extract the data from each column, into individual arrays. You should have arrays named. Suppress the data from being displayed.

   • years
   • ace
   • tropical_storms
   • hurricanes
   • major_hurricanes

3. Use the max function to determine which year had the highest

   • ACE value
   • Number of tropical storms
   • Number of hurricanes
   • Number of major hurricanes
4. Determine the mean and the median values for each column in the array, except for the year.
5. Use the sortrows function to rearrange the ace_data array based on the ACE value, sorted from high to low.

Atlantic Basin Hurricane Seasons, 19502016

Year	ACE Index	# Tropical Storms	# Hurricanes Cat. 15	# Major Hurricanes Cat. 35
1950	243	13	11	8
1951	137	10	8	5
1952	87	7	6	3
1953	104	14	6	4
1954	113	11	8	2
1955	199	12	9	6
1956	54	8	4	2
1957	84	8	3	2
1958	121	10	7	5
1959	77	11	7	2
1960	88	7	4	2
1961	205	11	8	7
1962	36	5	3	1
1963	118	9	7	2
1964	170	12	6	6
1965	84	6	4	1
1966	145	11	7	3
1967	122	8	6	1
1968	35	7	4	0
1969	158	17	12	5
1970	34	10	5	2
1971	97	13	6	1
1972	28	4	3	0
1973	43	7	4	1
1974	61	7	4	2
1975	73	8	6	3
1976	81	8	6	2
1977	25	6	5	1
1978	62	11	5	2
1979	91	8	5	2
1980	147	11	9	2
1981	93	11	7	3
1982	29	5	2	1
1983	17	4	3	1
1984	71	12	5	1
1985	88	11	7	3
1986	36	6	4	0
1987	34	7	3	1
1988	103	12	5	3
1989	135	11	7	2
1990	91	14	8	1
1991	34	8	4	2
1992	75	6	4	1
1993	39	8	4	1
1994	32	7	3	0
1995	228	19	11	5
1996	166	13	9	6
1997	40	7	3	1
1998	182	14	10	3
1999	177	12	8	5
2000	116	14	8	3
2001	106	15	9	4
2002	65	12	4	2
2003	175	16	7	3
2004	225	14	9	6
2005	248	28	15	7
2006	79	10	5	2
2007	72	15	6	2
2008	145	16	8	5
2009	51	9	3	2
2010	165	19	12	5
2011	126	19	7	4
2012	133	19	10	2
2013	36	14	2	0
2014	67	8	6	2
2015	63	11	4	2
2016	112	14	6	2

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