| What’s CFODD |
| CFODD (Contoured Frequency by Optical Depth Diagram) is a model diagnostic metric that evaluates warm rain formation microphysical processes against satellite observations. The methodology combines satellite cloud observables to construct a particular statistic that “fingerprint” signatures of the warm rain formation process. The corresponding statistics are constructed from output of a given model for comparisons with the satellite-based statistics to expose how the model realistically represents the warm rain formation process in a statistical sense. |
| Developer & Contact person |
| Kentaroh Suzuki, Atmosphere and Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo. e-mail: ksuzuki@ (please add aori.u-tokyo.ac.jp after @) |
| Acknowledge |
| The author(s) are grateful to Kentaroh Suzuki for using CFODD package in this research. |
| Reference |
| Suzuki, K., G. Stephens, A. Bodas-Salcedo, M. Wang, J.-C. Golaz, T. Yokohata, and T. Koshiro, 2015: Evaluation of the warm rain formation process in global models with satellite observations. J. Atmos. Sci., 72, 3996-4014, doi:10.1175/JAS-D-14-0265.1 |
| Data Policy |
| Libraries included in this system are provided to users with the understanding that they will be used only for non-profit scientific or educational purposes, the origin of the data, programs, parameters, are always acknowledged, and the users should assume complete responsibility for any direct and indirect damages due to use of these libraries. |
| Link for detailed description and download |
| https://github.com/kntrszk/cfodd |