Automated temporal front tracking toolbox in Matlab

This toolbox provides the Matlab scripts that achieve temporal tracking of coherently evolving density fronts in numerical modes. It consists of three components: (1) scripts to detect density fronts based on the Canny edge detection algorithm at each time step in the model outputs; (2) scripts to automatically track coherently evolving front in time; and (3) scripts to do front pruning and remove the incoherent frontal segment that shows inconsistent frontal propagation direction. A dataset ('G_time_rho.mat') containing modeled density at successive time steps is provided for demonstration. More details of this method can be found in our work that is expected to be published soon (Wu, X., F. Feddersen and S. N. Giddings, 2021, Automated temporal tracking of coherently evolving density fronts in numerical models, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, in revision). Contact Xiaodong Wu ([e-mail]) for any questions.