ALCF

Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer
Framework

Command line interface

alcf model

alcf model - extract model data at a point or along a track

Usage:

alcf model <type> point: { <lon> <lat> } time: { <start> <end> } <input>
	<output> [options]
alcf model <type> track: <track> <input> <output>

Arguments:

Options:

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.

Track:

Track file is a NetCDF file containing 1D variables lon, lat, and time. time is time in format conforming with the NetCDF standard, lon is longitude between 0 and 360 degrees and lat is latitude between -90 and 90 degrees.

Examples:

Extract MERRA-2 model data in M2I3NVASM.5.12.4 at 45 S, 170 E between 1 and 2 January 2020 and store the output in the directory alcf_merra2_model.

alcf model merra2 point: { -45.0 170.0 } time: { 2020-01-01 2020-01-02 } \
M2I3NVASM.5.12.4 alcf_merra2_model