PETER KUMA

I am an open source software developer and atmospheric physicist focusing on development for nonproprietary unix-like operating systems and climate science... The ALCF was developed at the University of Canterbury with support from the New Zealand Deep South National Science Challenge and NIWA, and at Stockholm University with support from the NextGEMS project, for the purpose of evaluation of climate models based on automatic lidar and ceilometer (ALC) observations... The ALCF is an open source command line tool for processing of automatic lidar and ceilometer (ALC) data and intercomparison with atmospheric models such as general circulation models (GCMs), numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and reanalyses utilising a lidar simulator based on the Cloud Feedback Model Intercomparison Project (CFMIP) Observation Simulator Package (COSP).

Primary location: Christchurch New Zealand