tintx 2022.9.1

Tracking facility to track rainfall and other non-continous data.

TintX (Tint is not TITAN) tracking algorithm for any kind of input data

TintX is an adaptation of the tint (tracking algorithm)[https://github.com/openradar/TINT]. Tint and TintX are easy-to-use storm cell tracking package based on the TITAN methodology by Dixon and Wiener. While Tint is meant to be applied to radar data using the py-ART toolkit tintX can be applied with any data - for example output from numerical weather prediction models. The original tracking algorithm that has been developed by a team of researchers at Monash University Raut et al. 2020.

Installation

To install the packages run :

$: python -m pip install tintx

if you don't have root access add the --user flag for a local installation

Usage

Documentation can be found on the official document page of this library.

Acknowledgements

This work is the adaptation of tracking code in R created by Bhupendra Raut who was working at Monash University, Australia in the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science led by Christian Jakob. This work was supported by the Department of Energy, Atmospheric Systems Research (ASR) under Grant DE-SC0014063, “The vertical structure of convective mass-flux derived from modern radar systems - Data analysis in support of cumulus parametrization”

The development of this software was funded by the Australian Research Council's Centre of Excellence for Climate Extremes under the fundering number CE170100023.