Visualisation of AAPP
WMO maintain a comprehensive list of data access and analysis tools, see http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/sat/processingtools_en.php.
See also the following web page on direct broadcast processing packages and visualisation tools, maintained by the ITWG Products and Software Working Group: http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/itwg/pswg/software_packages.html.
Specific interfaces for AAPP products have been provided for several visualisation tools, including:
Python
- The AAPP distribution includes a script (aapp1c_quicklook.py) for generating images from sounder instruments. The input is an hdf5 file generated by the AAPP tool “convert_to_hdf5”. Requires cartopy, numpy, h5py, matplotlib.
EUMETSAT: GMT
- The AAPP distribution includes scripts for generating images using GMT and some example images
- See http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/ for information about acquiring GMT
University of Wisconsin: McIDAS
Met Office: PV-wave and IDL
- Contact the NWP SAF to discuss supply of PV-wave and/or IDL code. Note that PV-WAVE and IDL are commercial software and you will need to acquire a license yourself. The code is not an NWP SAF deliverable but the NWP SAF will coordinate provision of this code to AAPP users if requested.
- See http://www.roguewave.com for information about PV-WAVE.
- See http://www.exelisvis.com/ProductsServices/IDL.aspx for information about IDL.
DMI/SMHI: Pytroll
- see http://www.pytroll.org/
- See this example script for reading and visualising MAIA cloud product files. The MAIA reader is currently in the devlop branch of Pytroll.
If you are aware of other sites providing information about data visualisation for AAPP then please inform the NWP SAF manager via the NWP SAF Helpdesk/a>.