https://github.com/aldomann/tropical-cyclones

Scripts to replicate the analyses and figures from "Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation" by Corral et al.
https://github.com/aldomann/tropical-cyclones

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Scripts to replicate the analyses and figures from "Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation" by Corral et al.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/aldomann/tropical-cyclones
• Owner: aldomann
• License: gpl-3.0
• Created: 2017-04-27T12:37:00.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-12-21T17:25:26.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-06T19:46:50.959Z (over 1 year ago)
• Topics: bachelor-thesis, data-analysis, hurricanes, mathematical-statistics, ocean, studies
• Language: R
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• Size: 51.8 MB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 1
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Tropical-cyclones

My bachelor's thesis (with [Alvaro Corral](http://www.crm.cat/en/About/People/Researchers/acorral/Pages/PersonalContact.aspx?ItemId=CO000207) as my thesis supervisor) consists of the study of hurricanes; both statistical and real occurrences, and comparison with some simple model of self-organized criticality. 

The scripts are used to replicate the analyses and figures from *Scaling of tropical-cyclone dissipation* [1].

## Summary of the analysis

Outline of the procedure used in the paper, and thus my bachelor's thesis.

### Storm track

Hurricane Katrina is selected as an illustration of the calculation of the PDI.

![image](images/git-track-storm.png)

### PDI statistics

The large-scale application of the same calculation yields the PDI probability density.

![image](images/git-plot-dpdi.png)

### Climate analysis

Separating years of high and low sea surface temperature, for example, splits the probability density into two contributions, shown here for the North Atlantic.

![image](images/git-sst-analysis.png)

![image](images/git-sst-analysis2.png)

## References

[1] : Osso, A., Corral, A., & Llebot, J. E. (2009). *Scaling of Tropical-Cyclone Dissipation*. Nature Physics, 6(9), 693–696. https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys1725