ALCF^beta

Command line interface

alcf stats

alcf stats - calculate cloud occurrence statistics

Usage: alcf stats <input> <output> [<options>]

Arguments:

• input: input filename or directory
• output: output filename or directory

Options:

• blim: <value>: backscatter histogram limits (1e-6 m-1.sr-1). Default: { 5 200 }.
• bres: <value>: backscatter histogram resolution (1e-6 m-1.sr-1). Default: 10.
• filter: <value>: filter profiles by condition: cloudy for cloudy profiles only, clear for clear sky profiles only, none for all profiles. Default: none.
• tlim: { <start> <end> }: Time limits (see Time format below). Default: none.
• zlim: { <low> <high> }: Height limits (m). Default: { 0 15000 }.
• zres: <value>: Height resolution (m). Default: 50.
• bsd_lim: { <low> <high> }: backscatter standard deviation histogram limits (1e-6 m-1.sr-1). Default: { 0.001 10 }.
• bsd_log: <value>: enable/disable logarithmic scale of the backscatter standard deviation histogram (true or false). Default: true.
• bsd_res: <value>: backscatter standard deviation histogram resolution (1e-6 m-1.sr-1). Default: 0.001.
• bsd_z: <value>: backscatter standard deviation histogram height (m). Default: 8000.

Time format:

“YYYY-MM-DD[THH:MM[:SS]]”, where YYYY is year, MM is month, DD is day, HH is hour, MM is minute, SS is second. Example: 2000-01-01T00:00:00.