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Articles | Volume 17, issue 16
Articles | Volume 17, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4891-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-4891-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 17, issue 16
Research article
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27 Aug 2024
Research article |  | 27 Aug 2024

ampycloud: an open-source algorithm to determine cloud base heights and sky coverage fractions from ceilometer data

Frédéric P. A. Vogt, Loris Foresti, Daniel Regenass, Sophie Réthoré, Néstor Tarin Burriel, Mervyn Bibby, Przemysław Juda, Simone Balmelli, Tobias Hanselmann, Pieter du Preez, and Dirk Furrer

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ampycloud is a new algorithm developed at MeteoSwiss to characterize the height and sky coverage fraction of cloud layers above aerodromes via ceilometer data. This algorithm was devised as part of a larger effort to fully automate the creation of meteorological aerodrome reports (METARs) at Swiss civil airports. The ampycloud algorithm is implemented as a Python package that is made publicly available to the community under the 3-Clause BSD license.
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