TITAN tracking of storms in WRF output

Code and documentation for tracking simulated thunderstorms in WRF output.

Tim Raupach [email protected]

This code was written by me (Tim Raupach) while I was a postdoc in the Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.

Affiliation:

• Until 31.12.2019: Institute of Geography and Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
• Current affiliation: Centre for Climate Change Research, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Documentation - setup:

• How to compile TITAN.
• How to compile script dependencies.
• Required R packages for R code.

Documentation - running:

• How to run TITAN on permutations of threshold values.
• How to track storms in WRF output using TITAN.
• How to collect hail properties from WRF/TITAN output.

Structure:

• WRF_config -- WRF namelist.input file and information.
• code -- scripts, split into ncl, R, and sh.
• data -- support data for storm tracking (subdomain definitions).
• doc -- documentation.
• threshold_optimisation -- reports showing TITAN threshold optimisation.

LROSE utilites:

• Modified versions of LROSE utilities that are used in this project are available under a separate repository. Parameter files for the LROSE utilities, including optimisted parameter files per microphysics scheme, are available under that repository.