Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer Framework (ALCF)

Important: This is a fork of
alcf-lidar/alcf with special features for
the manuscript "Ship-based lidar evaluation of Southern Ocean clouds in the
storm-resolving general circulation model ICON, and the ERA5 and MERRA-2
reanalyses". See also
peterkuma/icon-so-2024.

ALCF is an open source command line tool for processing of automatic lidar and
ceilometer (ALC) data and intercomparison with atmospheric models such as
general circulation models (GCMs), numerical weather prediction models (NWP) and
reanalyses with a lidar simulator using the
COPS instrument simulator framework running
offline on model output. ALCs are vertically pointing atmospheric lidars,
measuring cloud and aerosol backscatter. The primary focus of ALCF are
atmospheric studies of cloud using ALC observations and model cloud validation.

Please see alcf.peterkuma.net for more
information.