Hurricane identification method

[J. Matias Mendez Perez]

Chuck,

Thank you very much for your scripts, I'd like interchange some aditional
ideas and questions about them. I'll send you a e-mail later.

Best wishes,
Matias



> 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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