Hurricane identification method

[Charles Seman]

Matias,

Please find attached a script "plot_hurricane_center2a.gs", and please
let me know if you have any questions about it, OK?

I hope this helps,
Chuck

J. Matias Mendez Perez wrote:
> Hello GrADS users,
>
> I have upper and surface 6-hr data (zonal wind, meridional wind,
> temperature, precipitation, sea level presure, etc.). I need to identify
> hurricanes and their tracks for a period of 20 years. I have used criteria
> to identify them like minimum pressure center, maximum wind speed, using a
> script. The problem is when there are more than one hurricane in the
> region at the same time, the script just identifies the system with the
> lowest pressure center. I'd like to  identify hurricanes separately and
> plot trajectories one by one. Does anybody have a script to do this?, any
> suggestions are welcome. I hope someone can help me. Thank you very much.
>
> Regards from Mexico
> Matias
>

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