Some issues:
Partial reprocessing of ISCCP data has occurred for tropical storms (Kossin)
Records are far from homogeneous, even for satellite era
Records/practices are not comparable in different regions, even now.
We desperately need an internationally coordinated reprocessing of all satellite data for hurricanes, to get many parameters of interest, such as size, intensity, rainfall, integrated variables (0-100 km; 0-400 km) etc.