Seguimiento automatico de tormentas convectivas por radar

An automatic method for identifying and tracking convective storms by radar is presented, which is applied to two cases of study chosen as days with reports of severity. The method uses as entry CAPPI images of radar reflectivity 3 km height, consecutive in time, and obtained with the system Vesta ver. 5.3.4.5 (Pozas, 2005). For the identification the connected component labeling is used, and for tracking we seek for the minimum distance to the next position of the storm. For testing the method, the data were divided in three time intervals according to their observed complexity, and the autom...