Tropical cyclone casestudy

[s6sebusc]

Description

Analyzes a single prediction for a single user-selected tropical cyclone by comparing the track location, cyclone pressure and wind speed to the target. Input is expected to be interpolated to 1°x1° and stored in netcdf files produced by the export package. A config file specifies the forecast files and the time and location at which the target cyclone is to be found. The algorithm the detects and tracks all tropical cyclones in target and prediction, selects the tracks matching the chosen storm and produces evaluation plots.

The tracking logic is later intended to be used for systematic evaluation of all tropical cyclones over a longer period of time.

Issue Number

Closes #2260

[s6sebusc]

Example output for Typhoon Bolaven:

Snapshots of wind speed along the track, showing also the detected storm centers:

[clessig]

@s6sebusc : thank you very much! Could we run the tracker over the full 3 month evaluation period and compare the number of TCs to the one in IBTRACS?

[s6sebusc]

@s6sebusc : thank you very much! Could we run the tracker over the full 3 month evaluation period and compare the number of TCs to the one in IBTRACS?

yes, something like that would be a next step! If someone has data for three months already we can try it out.

[clessig]

@s6sebusc : thank you very much! Could we run the tracker over the full 3 month evaluation period and compare the number of TCs to the one in IBTRACS?

yes, something like that would be a next step! If someone has data for three months already we can try it out.

@MatKbauer ?