Articles | Volume 17, issue 13
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Development and technical paper
| 
11 Jul 2024
Development and technical paper |
| 11 Jul 2024
| 11 Jul 2024
tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena
G. Alexander Sokolowsky
CORRESPONDING AUTHOR
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
now at: Verisk Analytics, Inc., Boston, MA 02111, USA
Sean W. Freeman
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
now at: Department of Atmospheric and Earth Science, The University of Alabama in Huntsville, Huntsville, AL 35899, USA
William K. Jones
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Julia Kukulies
Regional Climate Group, Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden
Fabian Senf
Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Peter J. Marinescu
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80521, USA
Max Heikenfeld
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Kelcy N. Brunner
Department of Geosciences, Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Eric C. Bruning
Department of Geosciences, Atmospheric Science Group, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX, USA
Scott M. Collis
Environmental Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Robert C. Jackson
Environmental Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Gabrielle R. Leung
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Nils Pfeifer
Modeling of Atmospheric Processes, Leibniz Institute of Tropospheric Research, Leipzig, Germany
Bhupendra A. Raut
Environmental Sciences Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Lemont, IL 60439, USA
Stephen M. Saleeby
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Philip Stier
Atmospheric, Oceanic & Planetary Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
Susan C. van den Heever
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Data sets
tobac - Tracking and Object-based Analysis of Clouds tobac Community et al. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8164675
Short summary
Building on previous analysis tools developed for atmospheric science, the original release of the Tracking and Object-Based Analysis (tobac) Python package, v1.2, was open-source, modular, and insensitive to the type of gridded input data. Here, we present the latest version of tobac, v1.5, which substantially improves scientific capabilities and computational efficiency from the previous version. These enhancements permit new uses for tobac in atmospheric science and potentially other fields.
Building on previous analysis tools developed for atmospheric science, the original release of...
