CloudSat Data Processing Center

platform: Windows source: The HDF Group 28 Sep 2006 14:46

HDF41r2.zip

Pre-compiled binary version of the HDF 4.1r2 library. This and other versions can also be downloaded from http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/release4/obtain.html.

platform: Windows source: The HDF Group 28 Sep 2006 14:47

hdfeos25.zip

Pre-compiled binary version of the HDF-EOS 2.5 library. This and other versions can also be downloaded from http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdfeos.html.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX source: CloudSat DPC 4 Oct 2006 13:43

geoprof_png.pro

Reads a 2B-GEORPROF file and produces .png images of the Radar_Reflectivitiy field that match the segments on the DPC quicklooks found at http://cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/dpcstatusQL.php. Contains hooks to read and create images of the CPR_Cloud_mask field as well.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX source: CloudSat DPC 4 Jun 2007 10:30

cldclass_png.pro

Reads a 2B-CLDCLASS file and produces .png images of the cloud_scenario field that match the segments on the DPC quicklooks found at http://cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu/dpcstatusQL.php. Provides an example of how to work with bit fields in IDL.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX author: Brian Kahn (JPL) 20 Sep 2006 23:20

plot_cloudsat_only.tar.gz

This program reads 2B-GEOPROF data and plots vertical cross-sections of the cloud mask and reflectivity.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX author: Brian Kahn (JPL) 20 Sep 2006 23:20

collocate_airs_cloudsat.tar.gz

This program reads AIRS and Cloudsat data, and then colocates the desired fields. The output is a .dat file that is used by the Match AIRS & CloudSat program below to plot the data.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX author: Brian Kahn (JPL) 20 Sep 2006 23:20

match_airs_cloudsat.tar.gz

This program reads in the colocated AIRS and Cloudsat fields generated by the Colocate AIRS & CloudSat program above, and plots maps and vertical x-sections. This code can be adapted to other coincident platforms, such as MODIS, etc.

platform: Windows source: The HDF Group 28 Sep 2006 14:46

HDF41r2.zip

Pre-compiled binary version of the HDF 4.1r2 library. This and other versions can also be downloaded from http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/release4/obtain.html.

platform: Windows source: The HDF Group 28 Sep 2006 14:47

hdfeos25.zip

Pre-compiled binary version of the HDF-EOS 2.5 library. This and other versions can also be downloaded from http://hdf.ncsa.uiuc.edu/hdfeos.html.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX source: CloudSat DPC 5 Oct 2006 09:42

read_cloudsat.zip

Reads the Radar_Reflectivity field from a 2B-GEOPROF file, scales it and prints the values in the first profile to the screen. Uses the HDF-EOS library above on Windows, for *NIX you'll need the appropriate libraries for your platform.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX author: Simone Tanelli (JPL) 2 Oct 2006 22:10

CPR_L1B_rdr.m

Beta version that can be used as a starting point to developing code to read a CloudSat data file in MATLAB.

http://www.hdfgroup.org/hdf-java-html/hdfview

NCSA's HDFView is a free Java application that allows browsing of HDF and HDF-EOS files to inspect field and attribute names, sizes, types sizes and contents. It has a few more features than the free version of HDF Explorer (below).

http://www.space-research.org/index.html

HDF Explorer is a free program that allows browsing of HDF and HDF-EOS files to inspect field and attribute names, sizes, types sizes and contents. The paid version includes visualization capabilities.

http://www.hdfgroup.com/hdftools.html

A comprehensive list of tools for reading, converting, and visualizing HDF files.

http://www.hdfgroup.com/hdfeoss.html

A comprehensive list of applications that read HDF-EOS.

platform: Dec/SGI UNIX source: HDF-EOS Tools and Information Center

http://www.hdfeos.org/software/Binary_Dumper/

The binary dumper utility dumps HDF-EOS objects in binary format. This is useful for feeding the output of it into existing program, which does not understand HDF, for example: custom software and COTS products.

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