CloudSat Data Processing Center

platform: Windows source: The HDF Group 28 Sep 2006 13:46

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 13:47

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 12:43

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 09:30

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 22:20

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 22:20

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 22:20

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 13:46

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 13:47

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 08:42

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 21:10

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.

platform: Windows/Linux/UNIX author: Cristian Mitrescu (NRL) 28 Oct 2008 14:16

cloudsat_ftp.plx

This script retrieves data from the DPC's rotating storage FTP server ftp1.cloudsat.cira.colostate.edu. To use it you'll need to customize it with your login credentials, destination directory, and product and dates of interest.

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.

Code & Application Library