Ground-based lidar processing and simulator framework for comparing models and observations (ALCF 1.0)

• Main Authors: Kuma, Peter, McDonald, Adrian J., Morgenstern, Olaf, Querel, Richard, Silber, Israel, Flynn, Connor J.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Zenodo 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; The Antarctic; New Zealand; Merra; Antarc*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4421532; https://zenodo.org/record/4421532

Automatic lidars and ceilometers (ALCs) provide valuable information on cloud and aerosols but have not been systematically used in the evaluation of general circulation models (GCMs) and numerical weather prediction (NWP) models. Obstacles associated with the diversity of instruments, a lack of sta...