ALCF

Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer
Framework

Command line interface

alcf auto

alcf auto - peform automatic processing of model or lidar data

alcf auto model is equivalent to:

  1. alcf model
  2. alcf simulate
  3. alcf lidar
  4. alcf stats
  5. alcf plot backscatter
  6. alcf plot backscatter_hist
  7. alcf plot cloud_occurrence

alcf auto lidar is equivalent to:

  1. alcf lidar
  2. alcf stats
  3. alcf plot backscatter
  4. alcf plot backscatter_hist
  5. alcf plot cloud_occurrence

alcf auto compare is equivalent to:

  1. alcf plot cloud_occurrence

Usage:

alcf auto model <model_type> <lidar_type> <input> <output>
    point: { <lon> <lat> } time: { <start> <end> }
    [<options>] [<model_options>] [<lidar_options>]
alcf auto model <model_type> <lidar_type> <input> <output>
    track: <track> [<options>] [<model_options>] [<lidar_options>]
alcf auto lidar <lidar_type> <input> <output> [<options>] [<lidar_options>]
alcf auto compare <input>... <output> [<options>] [<plot_options>]

Arguments:

Options:

Model types:

Lidar types:

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.

Examples:

Simulate a Vaisala CL51 instrument from MERRA-2 data in M2I3NVASM.5.12.4 at 45 S, 170 E between 1 and 2 January 2020 and store the output in alcf_merra2.

alcf auto model merra2 cl51 M2I3NVASM.5.12.4 alcf_merra2 \
point: { -45.0 170.0 } time: { 2020-01-01 2020-01-02 }

Process Lufft CHM 15k data in chm15k and store the output in alcf_chm15k.

alcf auto lidar chm15k chm15k_data alcf_chm15k