TCTrack Tutorial

We have included some tutorials for using TCTrack to generate cyclone tracks using Tempest Extremes and TSTORMS.

These consists of Jupyter notebooks in the tutorial/ directory of the repository. These go through the steps of preprocessing data and running the tracking algorithms for a week of data. These are shown on the pages below:

• Tempest Extremes tutorial

• TSTORMS tutorial

• Batching tutorial

Running manually

To run the tutorial manually, first follow the installation instructions. Make sure to use a conda environment and install TCTrack from source (not from PyPI) so that the tutorial notebooks are downloaded.

Use the additional tutorial dependencies when installing tctrack:

pip install .[tutorial]

From your cloned version of TCTrack navigate to the tutorial/ directory and run jupyter:

cd tutorial
jupyter notebook

Next, open the desired notebook and follow the instructions.