Something I'm very interested in are African Easterly Waves (AEWs) and how they propagate across the Atlantic. If you're unfamiliar with this topic, I have an in-depth post here, but they essentially account for ~80% of major hurricanes that form in the Atlantic.
A couple of graduate students here at FSU are using their own methods to track these AEWs/seeds, with similar methods used by Quinton Lawton utilizing 700 hPa vorticity curvature. I've created this interactive web-app using Quinton's data for verification purposes from 1979-2023. If you're interested in this area of tropical meteorology definitely take a look and let me know any feedback/errors/future features you would like to see!
It can be filtered by month and year, with segments of each track are interactive to get more information: https://ustropics.github.io/aew-tracker/
African Easterly Wave Tracker Webapp
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