tobac - Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds#

tobac

Tracking atmospheric phenomena with your data

tobac (Tracking and Object-Based Analysis of Clouds) is a package that identifies and tracks atmospheric phenomena, enabling object-based analysis in model, observational, and remote sensing datasets.

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tobac Use and Development#

Contributions

Contributions and issue reports are very welcome at the GitHub repository. We have a developer guide to help you through the process. We also offer mentoring for new contributors; see the developer guide for details.

Scientific Use

tobac has been used in over 40 peer-reviewed publications, a subset of which are listed on our publications page.

Citation

If you use tobac for scholarly work, please cite it using the software citation: DOI, the original paper:

Heikenfeld, M., Marinescu, P. J., Christensen, M., Watson-Parris, D., Senf, F., van den Heever, S. C., and Stier, P.: tobac 1.2: towards a flexible framework for tracking and analysis of clouds in diverse datasets, Geosci. Model Dev., 12, 4551–4570, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-4551-2019, 2019

or, if you are using features introduced from v1.5.0 or above, please also cite the v1.5.0 paper:

Sokolowsky, G. A., Freeman, S. W., Jones, W. K., Kukulies, J., Senf, F., Marinescu, P. J., Heikenfeld, M., Brunner, K. N., Bruning, E. C., Collis, S. M., Jackson, R. C., Leung, G. R., Pfeifer, N., Raut, B. A., Saleeby, S. M., Stier, P., and van den Heever, S. C.: tobac v1.5: introducing fast 3D tracking, splits and mergers, and other enhancements for identifying and analysing meteorological phenomena, Geosci. Model Dev., 17, 5309–5330, https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-17-5309-2024, 2024.