Characterization of medicanes with a minimal number of geopotential levels

Abstract Medicanes are tropical‐like cyclones that develop in the Mediterranean Sea. Due to their harmful potential, study of medicanes has captured great attention from scientific community. In context a changing climate, future climatological characterization can only be achieved using climate model output. A frequently used method characterize thermal structure is cyclone phase space (CPS) described by Hart (2003). This requires geopotential data 300 900 hPa every 50 hPa. However, long, high‐resolution simulations, output very high storage and few levels saved. To overcome lack at some levels, available vertically interpolated obtain for 13 required. this work, we use horizontal resolution ERA‐5 reanalysis (1979–2018) analyse climatology simulated vertical required according (2003), as well different combinations selected levels. Our results allow us propose, first time, limited set recommended an adequate perspective long change taking into account associated limitations storage.