GitHub

ALCF

Automatic Lidar and Ceilometer
Framework

Publications

McDonald, A. J., Kuma, P., Panell, M., Petterson, O. Plank, G. E., Rozliaiani, M. A. H., & Whitehead, L. E. (2024). Evaluating Cloud Properties at Scott Base: Comparing Ceilometer Observations with ERA5, JRA55, and MERRA2 Reanalyses Using an Instrument Simulator. ESS Open Archive. https://doi.org/10.22541/essoar.171820795.52152814/v1

Whitehead, L. E., McDonald, A. J., & Guyot, A. (2023). Supercooled liquid water cloud classification using lidar backscatter peak properties. EGUsphere. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-1085

Pei, Z., Fiddes, S. L., French, W. J. R., Alexander, S. P., Mallet, M. D., Kuma, P., & McDonald, A. (2023). Assessing the cloud radiative bias at Macquarie Island in the ACCESS-AM2 model. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 23(23), 14691–14714. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-23-14691-2023

Guyot, A., Protat, A., Alexander, S. P., Klekociuk, A. R., Kuma, P., & McDonald, A. (2022). Detection of supercooled liquid water containing clouds with ceilometers: development and evaluation of deterministic and data-driven retrievals. Atmospheric Measurement Techniques, 15(12), 3663–3681. https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-3663-2022

Kremser, S., Harvey, M., Kuma, P., Hartery, S., Saint-Macary, A., McGregor, J., Schuddeboom, A., von Hobe, M., Lennartz, S. T., Geddes, A., Querel, R., McDonald, A., Peltola, M., Sellegri, K., Silber, I., Law, C. S., Flynn, C. J., Marriner, A., Hill, T. C. J., DeMott, P. J., Hume, C. C., Plank, G., Graham, G., & Parsons, S. (2021). Southern Ocean cloud and aerosol data: a compilation of measurements from the 2018 Southern Ocean Ross Sea Marine Ecosystems and Environment voyage. Earth System Science Data, 13(7), 3115–3153. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-3115-2021

Kuma, P., McDonald, A. J., Morgenstern, O., Querel, R., Silber, I., & Flynn, C. J. (2021). Ground-based lidar processing and simulator framework for comparing models and observations (ALCF 1.0). Geoscientific Model Development, 14(1), 43–72. https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-43-2021

Kuma, P., McDonald, A. J., Morgenstern, O., Alexander, S. P., Cassano, J. J., Garrett, S., Halla, J., Hartery, S., Harvey, M. J., Parsons, S., Plank, G., Varma, V., & Williams, J. (2020). Evaluation of Southern Ocean cloud in the HadGEM3 general circulation model and MERRA-2 reanalysis using ship-based observations. Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, 20(11), 6607–6630. https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-20-6607-2020