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© Author(s) 2023. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Research article
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21 Jul 2023
Research article |
| 21 Jul 2023
| 21 Jul 2023
A composite approach to produce reference datasets for extratropical cyclone tracks: application to Mediterranean cyclones
Institute of Oceanography, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Athens,
Greece
Leonardo Aragão
Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, University of
Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Lisa Bernini
University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Milan, Italy
Meteorology and Climate Department, University of Genoa, CIMA Foundation, Savona, Italy
Stavros Dafis
National Observatory of Athens, Institute of Environmental Research and
Sustainable Development, Athens, Greece
Data4Risk, Paris, France
Benjamin Doiteau
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS,
Toulouse, France
CNRM, Météo-France and CNRS, Toulouse, France
Helena Flocas
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Athens, Greece
Suzanne L. Gray
Department of Meteorology, University of Reading, Reading, UK
Alexia Karwat
Meteorological Institute, University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
John Kouroutzoglou
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Athens, Greece
Hellenic National Meteorological Service, Elliniko, Greece
Piero Lionello
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, DiSTeBA, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy
Mario Marcello Miglietta
Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (CNR-ISAC), National
Research Council of Italy, Padua, Italy
Florian Pantillon
Laboratoire d'Aérologie, Université de Toulouse, CNRS, UPS,
Toulouse, France
Claudia Pasquero
University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Milan, Italy
Platon Patlakas
Department of Physics, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens,
Athens, Greece
María Ángeles Picornell
Agencia Estatal de Meteorología, AEMET, Palma, Spain
Federico Porcù
Department of Physics and Astronomy “Augusto Righi”, University of
Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Matthew D. K. Priestley
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Exeter, Exeter,
UK
Marco Reale
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics-OGS, Trieste,
Italy
Abdus Salam International Centre for Theoretical Physics, ICTP, Trieste, Italy
Malcolm J. Roberts
Met Office, Exeter, UK
Hadas Saaroni
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Dor Sandler
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Enrico Scoccimarro
Fondazione Centro Euro-Mediterraneo sui Cambiamenti Climatici – CMCC,
Bologna, Italy
Michael Sprenger
Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science, ETH Zurich, Zurich,
Switzerland
Baruch Ziv
Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University,
Tel Aviv, Israel
Department of Life and Natural Sciences, The Open University of Israel,
Ra'anana, Israel
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Short summary
Cyclone detection and tracking methods (CDTMs) have different approaches in defining and tracking cyclone centers. This leads to disagreements on extratropical cyclone climatologies. We present a new approach that combines tracks from individual CDTMs to produce new composite tracks. These new tracks are shown to correspond to physically meaningful systems with distinctive life stages.
Cyclone detection and tracking methods (CDTMs) have different approaches in defining and...
