Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6051-2020
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6051-2020
Model description paper
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02 Dec 2020
Model description paper |  | 02 Dec 2020

TITAM (v1.0): the Time-Independent Tracking Algorithm for Medicanes

Enrique Pravia-Sarabia, Juan José Gómez-Navarro, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, and Juan Pedro Montávez

Data sets

TITAM (Time Independent Tracking Algorithm for Medicanes) software validation dataset Enrique Pravia-Sarabia https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3874884

Model code and software

TITAM (Time Independent Tracking Algorithm for Medicanes) software (Version 1.0) Enrique Pravia-Sarabia, Juan José Gómez-Navarro, Pedro Jiménez-Guerrero, and Juan Pedro Montávez https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3874416

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Short summary
This work shows TITAM, a time-independent tracking algorithm specifically suited for Mediterranean tropical-like cyclones, often referred to as medicanes. The methodology developed has the capacity to track multiple simultaneous cyclones, the ability to track a medicane in the presence of intense extratropical lows, and the potential to separate the medicane from other similar structures by handling the intermittent loss of structure and managing the tilting of the axis.