pyTCR is a physics-based model developed in python to estimate rainfall induced by tropical cyclones (TCs). It is largely based on the TCR model described by Zhu et al., 2013 and Lu et al., 2018. PyTCR simulates convective TC rainfall by correlating the precipitation rate with the total upward velocity within the TC vortex. It integrates seamlessly with outputs from a tropical cyclone downscaling model (see Lin et al., 2023) to generate detailed spatial-temporal rainfall patterns that align with hurricane tracks.
pyTCR can be installed from PyPI using:
pip install pyTCRThe source code is available on GitHub under the MIT Licence.