Plot tropical cyclone tracks from BUFR data

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The BUFR file https://get.ecmwf.int/repository/test-data/earthkit-data/test-data/A_JSXX01ECEP251200_C_ECMP_20240625120000_tropical_cyclone_track_70W_132degE_6p4degN_bufr4.bin contains tropical cyclone track forecast for multiple ensemble members.

The following code extracts the minimum mslp locations for a given member into a pandas dataframe:

import earthkit.data

f_path = "A_JSXX01ECEP251200_C_ECMP_20240625120000_tropical_cyclone_track_70W_132degE_6p4degN_bufr4.bin"
ds = earthkit.data.from_source("file", f_path)
df = ds.to_pandas(columns=("latitude", "longitude", "pressureReducedToMeanSeaLevel"),
    filters={"ensembleMemberNumber": 2, "meteorologicalAttributeSignificance": [1,4]},
    required_columns=True)

df = df.dropna()

   latitude  longitude  pressureReducedToMeanSeaLevel
0       6.7      132.8                       100700.0
1       5.5      131.2                       100600.0
2       6.5      130.0                       100600.0
3       8.7      128.3                       100400.0
6      11.9      122.9                       100900.0
7      13.0      121.8                       100800.0

The task is to generate a plot containing a singe track or multiple tracks.

The data also contains the maximum 10m wind locations, which can be extracted with the following code:

df = ds.to_pandas(columns=("latitude", "longitude", "windSpeedAt10M"),
    filters={"ensembleMemberNumber": 2, "meteorologicalAttributeSignificance": 3},
             required_columns=True)

df = df.dropna()

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