ampycloud 2.1.1

Determining the sky coverage fraction and base height of cloud layers usingceilometer data

ampycloud

Introduction

ampycloud refers to both this Python package and the algorithm at its core, designed to characterize cloud layers (i.e. height and sky coverage fraction) using ceilometer measurements (i.e. automatic cloud base hits measurements), and derive the corresponding METAR-like message.

For the full documentation, installation instructions, etc ..., go to: https://meteoswiss.github.io/ampycloud

License & Copyright

ampycloud is released under the terms of the 3-Clause BSD license. The copyright (2021-2024) belongs to MeteoSwiss.

Contributing to ampycloud

Please see the contributing guidelines for details.