RICO (Rain In Cumulus over Ocean)
papers
- journal paper
-
Arabas, S., H. Pawlowska, W. Grabowski, 2009:
Effective radius and droplet spectral width from in-situ aircraft observations in trade-wind cumuli during RICO,
Geophys. Res. Lett., 36, L11803, doi:10.1029/2009GL038257
[abstract/article] (first 200 readers can get the article from AGU for free using this code as username and password: 83440708)
- conference paper
- MSc thesis
flight summary animations
developed scripts / apps
- RICO Analyst
- use: interactive tool for visualisation and simple stat. analysis of RICO airborne measurements
- example output: see the thesis or ICCP2008 paper/slides in papers tab for examples of output figures
- screenshots: PDF, 120 KiB
- requires: GDL/IDL, Xdialog, bash, textutils, X server
- works on: NCAR RAF 10Hz netCDFs, FastFSSP netCDFS (see ffssp_ncdf below)
- documentation, source code, etc: contact me
- RICO FSSP Compare
- use: interactive comparison between FSSP-100 and Fast-FSSP data
- requires: GDL/IDL, Xdialog, bash, textutils, X server
- works on: NCAR RAF 10Hz netCDFs, Meteo-France FastFSSP data, fwd camera jpegs
- documentation: [PDF]
- tarball with source code: [TGZ]
- rico_anims
- use: creation of the hereby presented flight summary animations
- requires: PHP, gnuplot, bash, textutils, ImageMagick
- works on: Meteo-France 1Hz Tasfiles, EOL/UCAR GOES-12 jpegs
- tarball with source code: [TGZ]
- ffssp_ncdf
- use: convertion of Meteo-France FastFSSP text-files into NCAR RAF-like netCDFs
- requires: bash, textutils, GDL/IDL
- works on: Meteo-France FastFSSP data
- tarball with source code: [TGZ]
rationale: MSc thesis-related research
author: Sylwester Arabas
