CMIP6 HighResMIP: Tropical storm tracks as calculated by the TempestExtremes algorithm

These data are the tropical storm tracks calculated using the "TempestExtremes" storm tracking algorithm. The storm tracks are from experiments run as part of HighResMIP (High Resolution Model Intercomparison Project; Haarsma, R. J. and co-authors) a component of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP6). The raw HighResMIP data are available from the Earth System Grid Federation (ESGF), here the calculated storm tracks are available.

The storm tracks are provided as Climate Model Output Rewriter (CMOR)-like NetCDF files with one file per hemisphere for all years in the simulated period of HighResMIP experiments:

1950-2014 - highresSST-present, atmosphere-only;

2015-2050 - highresSST-future experiment, atmosphere-only;

1950-2050 – control-1950, coupled atmosphere-ocean;

1950-2014 – hist-1950, coupled atmosphere-ocean;

2015-2050 – highres-future, coupled atmosphere-ocean using SSP585 scenario.

There is one tracked variable in each file with time, latitude and longitude coordinates associated at each six-hour interval.

Other variables associated with each track are also provided, e.g. the minimum or maximum value adjacent to the track of the variable of interest and these variables have their own latitude and longitude coordinate variables. If a maximum/minimum value is not found, then a missing data value is used for the respective latitude-longitude values.

Date (Publication): 2019-07-23T10:56:26

Date (Creation): 2019-07-23T10:56:26

Citation identifier: https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/438268b75fed4f27988dc02f8a1d756d

Citation identifier: Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA) / 438268b75fed4f27988dc02f8a1d756d

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Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Unavailable	Roberts, Malcolm	Unavailable	Author
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Custodian
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Owner
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor
Unavailable	Roberts, Malcolm	Unavailable	Principal investigator
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	pointofContact
Unavailable	Roberts, Malcolm	Unavailable	pointofContact
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Publisher

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Keywords

CMIP6
HighResMIP
tropical
cyclone
high resolution
storm tracking

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

atmospheric conditions

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Other constraints: Under the following licence http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, appropriate use of these data may fall under any use. This message is intended as guidance, always read the full licence. When using these data you must cite them correctly using the citation given on the CEDA Data Catalogue record.

Spatial representation type: Grid

Language: English

Topic category

Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere

Begin date: 1950-01-01T00:00:00

End date: 2050-12-31T23:59:59

Unique resource identifier: WGS 84

Distribution format

Name	Version
The storm tracks are provided as Climate Model Output Rewriter (CMOR)-like NetCDF files with one file per hemisphere .

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceda.ac.uk/uuid/438268b75fed4f27988dc02f8a1d756d	CEDA Data Catalogue Page

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	http://data.ceda.ac.uk/badc/highresmip-derived/data/storm_tracks/TempExt	DOWNLOAD

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://www.primavera-h2020.eu/	PRIMAVERA project website

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://github.com/PRIMAVERA-H2020/HighResMIP-storm_reader	Github site with documentation and python code to read and understand the storm track files.

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-10-1069-2017	Ullrich, P. A., & Zarzycki, C. M. (2017). TempestExtremes: A framework for scale-insensitive pointwise feature tracking on unstructured grids. Geoscientific Model Development, 10(3), 1069-1090.

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://doi.org/10.1002/2016GL071606	Zarzycki, C. M., & Ullrich, P. A. (2017). Assessing sensitivities in algorithmic detection of tropical cyclones in climate data. Geophysical Research Letters, 44(2), 1141-1149.

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Conformance result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Statement: The data were passed from the project team to the Centre for Environmental Data Analysis for archival and distribution in July 2019.

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File identifier: 438268b75fed4f27988dc02f8a1d756d XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Parent identifier: CMIP6 HighResMIP: Tropical storm tracks
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Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2026-02-16T03:16:28

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Centre for Environmental Data Analysis (CEDA)		support@ceda.ac.uk	Point of contact

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