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Dataset

 

CMIP6 HighResMIP: Tropical storm tracks as calculated by the TRACK algorithm

Latest Data Update: 2020-11-16
Status: Ongoing
Online Status: ONLINE
Publication State: Published
Publication Date: 2019-05-28
Download Stats: last 12 months
Dataset Size: 256 Files | 8GB

Abstract

These data are the tropical storm tracks calculated using the "TRACK" storm tracking algorithm. The storm tracks are from experiments run as part of HighResMIP (High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project; Haarsma, R. J. and co-authors) a component of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). The raw HighResMIP data are available from the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), here the calculated storm tracks are available.

The storm tracks are provided as Climate Model Output Rewriter (CMOR)-like NetCDF files with one file per hemisphere for all years in the simulated period of HighResMIP experiments:
1950-2014 - highresSST-present, atmosphere-only;
2015-2050 - highresSST-future experiment, atmosphere-only;
1950-2050 – control-1950, coupled atmosphere-ocean;
1950-2014 – hist-1950, coupled atmosphere-ocean;
2015-2050 – highres-future, coupled atmosphere-ocean using SSP585 scenario.
There is one tracked variable in each file with time, latitude and longitude coordinates associated at each six-hour interval.

Other variables associated with each track are also provided, e.g. the minimum or maximum value adjacent to the track of the variable of interest and these variables have their own latitude and longitude coordinate variables. If a maximum/minimum value is not found, then a missing data value is used for the respective latitude-longitude values.

Citable as:  Roberts, M. (2019): CMIP6 HighResMIP: Tropical storm tracks as calculated by the TRACK algorithm. Centre for Environmental Data Analysis, date of citation. https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/0b42715a7a804290afa9b7e31f5d7753
Abbreviation: Not defined
Keywords: CMIP6, HighResMIP, tropical, cyclone, high resolution, storm tracking

Details

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Access rules:
Public data: access to these data is available to both registered and non-registered users.
Use of these data is covered by the following licence: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.
Data lineage:

The data were passed from the project team to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis for archival and distribution in March 2019.

Data Quality:
No quality control information has been presented by the data originators and no quality control has been undertaken by the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis.
File Format:
The data are NetCDF formatted.

Process overview

This dataset was generated by the computation detailed below.
Title

TRACK computation for CMIP6 HighResMIP storm tracks

Abstract

The storm tracking algorithm TRACK (Hodges, et. al., 2017) uses 850 hPa vorticity, averaged over 850, 700, 600 hPa, and filtered to T63 spectral grid, to find storm candidates. It then uses the vertical gradient of vorticity to determine if there is a warm core this with other conditions determine whether a tropical storm is identified.

The algorithm used for the storm-tracking is also described in the metadata of the track files and full details can be found in the linked documentation.

The storm tracks were calculated using the Lotus cluster at on the JASMIN compute facility at the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA).

Input Description

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Output Description

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Software Reference

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  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Atmosphere relative vorticity at 250 hPa on T63
  • var_id: rv250_T63
  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Atmosphere relative vorticity at 500 hPa on T63
  • var_id: rv500_T63
  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Atmosphere relative vorticity at 600 hPa on T63
  • var_id: rv600_T63
  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Atmosphere relative vorticity at 700 hPa on T63
  • var_id: rv700_T63
  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Atmosphere relative vorticity at 850 hPa on T63
  • var_id: rv850_T63
  • units: m s-1
  • standard_name: wind_speed
  • var_id: sfcWind
  • long_name: Near-surface Wind Speed
  • units: s-1
  • standard_name: atmosphere_relative_vorticity
  • long_name: Relative vorticity at 850 hPa
  • var_id: rv850
  • units: hPa
  • var_id: psl
  • long_name: Sea Level Pressure
  • standard_name: air_pressure_at_mean_sea_level
  • units: m s-1
  • standard_name: wind_speed
  • long_name: Wind Speed at 925 hPa
  • var_id: ws925
  • units: 1
  • long_name: first_pt
  • var_id: FIRST_PT
  • units: 1
  • var_id: index
  • long_name: index
  • units: 1
  • long_name: num_pts
  • var_id: NUM_PTS
  • units: hPa
  • long_name: pressure
  • var_id: plev
  • units: 1
  • long_name: track_id
  • var_id: TRACK_ID
  • units: 1
  • long_name: warm_core_indicator
  • var_id: warm_core_indicator

Co-ordinate Variables

  • units: degrees_north
  • standard_name: latitude
  • long_name: latitude
  • var_id: lat_ws925
  • units: degrees_east
  • standard_name: longitude
  • long_name: longitude
  • var_id: lon_ws925
  • long_name: time
  • standard_name: time
  • var_id: time
Coverage
Temporal Range
Start time:
1950-01-01T00:00:00
End time:
2050-12-31T23:59:59
Geographic Extent

 
30.0000°
 
-180.0000°
 
180.0000°
 
-30.0000°
 
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