Convective cloud trajectories from 3D radar reflectivities

This repository accompanies the article "A ML-based perspective on deep convective clouds and their organisation in 3D. Part I: Influence of deep convective cores on the cloud life-cycle" by Sarah Brüning and Holger Tost, which is to be submitted to ACP.

The datasets here are used to create the plots from the study. They contain the contiguous trajectories of convective clouds based on ML-based 3D radar reflectivities. The data cover March - August 2019 for a region over tropical West Africa (30° N - 30° S, 30° E -  30° W). Within the folder, the two files contain the trajectories aggregated by the cloud ID (agg) and all unique observations of the trajectories. The data is derived using code from https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14699719.