The Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE): An End-to-End Suite of Applications for Radar and Lidar Processing

Michael Dixon; Jennifer Dehart; Brenda Javornik; Ting Yu Cha; Michael Bell; Wen Chau Lee

doi:10.5334/jors.630

The Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE): An End-to-End Suite of Applications for Radar and Lidar Processing

Michael Dixon
, Jennifer Dehart
, Brenda Javornik
, Ting Yu Cha
, Michael Bell
, Wen Chau Lee

National Center for Atmospheric Research
Colorado State University

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Abstract

The Lidar Radar Open Software Environment (LROSE) is a suite of high-performance C++ applications for format conversion, quality control, visualization, and analysis of weather radar and lidar data, developed over 30 years at the U.S. National Science Foundation National Center for Atmospheric Research (NSF NCAR) and Colorado State University (CSU). Distributed under a Berkeley Software Distribution (BSD) license on GitHub, LROSE supports real-time and archival scientific analysis workflows. Future distribution via the conda-forge Python channel is planned.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-10
Number of pages	10
Journal	Journal of Open Research Software
Volume	14
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5334/jors.630
State	Published - Apr 16 2026
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

atmospheric science
C++
lidar
meteorology
radar
weather radar

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