A Thunderstorm Identification, Tracking, Analysis, and Nowcasting (TITAN) software package provides information about the current and forecast location and size of existing thunderstorms. The thunderstorm detection and forecast is based on 3-D cartesian radar data (Dixon and Wiener, 1993-ref). A thunderstorm is defined as a continuous region exceeding given reflectivity and volume thresholds. These thresholds are parameters that can be changed but are presently set to 40 dBZ (reflectivity) and 50 km3 (volume). An optimization method that matches storms at one radar volume time to those at a subsequent time is used to track the storms. Based on past storm trends, TITAN predicts future storm location and size.
Example of TITAN output:
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