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Methods for assessment of models
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30 Oct 2019
Methods for assessment of models |
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tobac 1.2: towards a flexible framework for tracking and analysis of clouds in diverse datasets
Max Heikenfeld
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Peter J. Marinescu
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Matthew Christensen
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Duncan Watson-Parris
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Fabian Senf
Leibniz Institute for Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Susan C. van den Heever
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA
Philip Stier
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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Short summary
We present tobac (Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds), a newly developed framework for tracking and analysing clouds in different types of datasets. It provides a flexible new way to include the evolution of individual clouds in a wide range of analyses. It is developed as a community project to provide a common basis for the inclusion of existing tracking algorithms and the development of new analyses that involve tracking clouds and other features in geoscientific research.
We present tobac (Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds), a newly developed framework for...
