Thunderstorm Identification, Tracking, Analysis and Nowcasting
TITAN was originally designed as an algorithm to objectively identify and track thunderstorms, as measured by digital weather radar, for the purpose of evaluating weather modification activities. Since then it has grown in two ways: (a) the algorithm has been refined and expanded to include forecasting, analysis and climatology aspects and (b) the name TITAN has become associated with the system (for data handling, analysis and display) upon which TITAN is built, rather than the algorithm itself.
The TITAN system is now a relatively large suite of software, incorporating the capabililty to handle data from a large number of radar types, as well as supporting data from satellite, lightning sensors, surface observations and numerical models. The display software has been augmented by CIDD (the Cartesian Interactive Data Display) developed at RAL by Frank Hage. A Java viewer, based on the JADE framework will be supported at some time in the future.
More information at the Titan’s Website: http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/titan/home/