Glider / Tropical Cyclone Intercepts Metric

[MarySolokas1]

What should we add?

Would it be possible to add a metric that calculates the number of tropical cyclones that are intercepted by gliders each hurricane season?

Similar to what Lev Looney has calculated previously, documented here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1gC7-LbAk6qhOqjhWxpTcWvW9mIQVZ6z2

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[ocefpaf]

It is definitely possible. I'll try to reproduce that table first but different approaches may yield different results. What level of granularity are you hoping for? glider name/storm name intercept? Or something exactly like that table? the trick part is to define the borders of the storm. We can use NHC data for that... Looking into it.

[MarySolokas1]

I think the glider name / storm name intercept is all we would need!

[ocefpaf]

@MarySolokas1 this is just a prototype and is still missing the time component of the intercepts. Posting it to get some feedback before proceeding.

https://nbviewer.org/urls/gist.githubusercontent.com/ocefpaf/dd0737c7ef98a37fddcaa79a0b1b1500/raw/e1d8514374e54b6751a8bba6df87adcdc71382a4/glider_strom_intercept.ipynb

I'll elaborate on it a bit more later today.

The feedback I'm looking for are:

• Should we do all the track data or by year?
• Is that bounding box (red rectangle) OK?
• Is the GIS operation approach I'm using (line cross) OK? Lev's one seems overly complicated and hard to follow with the documentation provided.