remsens-lim / virga_sniffer

The Virga-Sniffer is a tool to detect virga from radar reflectivity and ceilometer cloud base height observations. Optionally ancillary input data of mean Doppler velocity, lifting condensation level and surface rain detection refine the virga detection.
https://virga-sniffer.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html
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Requested output flags #8

Closed jonas-witthuhn closed 1 year ago

jonas-witthuhn commented 2 years ago

Some additional, helpful flags/variables:

jonas-witthuhn commented 1 year ago

Some clarification might be needed: It is totally possible, that there is a value of cloud-base height in the output data, but, at the same time, there is no cloud detected. This can occur frequently in the lowest level, when the cloud-base height is filled with the LCL, but also in upper levels due to filling of gaps or when the ceilometer sees some cloud-base, but the particles are to small to be seen with the radar. We could restrict the cloud-base to time-steps when a cloud or virga is actually detected, but the issue will persist in situations when there is virga (e.g. fall streaks) but no cloud above.

In addition to the additional flags on top, maybe add:

jonas-witthuhn commented 1 year ago

All requested flags have been added