README.md

TITAN - Thunderstorm Identification Tracking Analysis & Nowcasting

Overview

1. Introduction
2. Storm Indentification
3. Storm Tracking
4. Forecasting
5. Storm Analysis
6. Storm Climatology
7. History
8. Acknowledgements

TITAN on GitHub

The TITAN project is now hosted on GitHub.

Installing the TITAN applications

The TITAN applications are part of the LROSE - the Lidar Radar Open Software Environment.

The LROSE core code can be found at lrose-core.

The TITAN applications should be compiled and installed following the documentation for the core.

Installing the TITAN scripts and parameter files

The templates for the scripts and parameter files reside in this lrose-titan respository - lrose-titan/projects.

To install a template, see these docs.

The TITAN runtime environment

See runtime_environment.md for help on setting up the required runtime environment.

Reference documentation

Installing and running TITAN

1. Overview
2. Install
3. Running TITAN
4. The data system
5. Sample data flows
6. Catalog of applications
7. Getting started with Linux

Manuals from TITAN users

1. TITAN displays - SA Weather Service
2. TITAN analysis - SA Weather Service
3. TITAN systems admin - SA Weather Service
4. TITAN manual - Portuguese - IPMET, Brazil

Thanks to the above organizations for contributing to the documentation.

Data formats

1. MDV
2. MDV XML
3. Tstorms XML
4. Time series IWRF

Photos courtesy of Greg Thompson, NCAR/RAL, Boulder, CO, USA.