Calculate cloud field properties from ASTER cloud masks on February 5

Posted on Do 06 August 2020 in cloud field properties • by Theresa Mieslinger • Tagged with code, ASTER, DAY-0205

The script shows how to process ASTER image data, calculate cloud field properties, such as cloud fraction, cloud top height, cloud sizes, and cloud clustering (Iorg) and save the information to netCDF files for each image.


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How to read and plot ASTER image data from AERIS

Posted on Do 06 August 2020 in code examples • by Theresa Mieslinger • Tagged with code, ASTER, DAY-0205


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Plot all radar calibration patterns using halo-flight-phase-separation

Posted on Do 06 August 2020 in radar calibration • by Florian Ewald • Tagged with code, HALO MIRA

This minimal working example demonstrates how to grab flight segments and BAHAMAS navigation data for all HALO flights and use this dataset to plot all radar calibration patterns flown by HALO during EUREC4A.


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Plot cloud field properties derived from ASTER imgages on February 5

Posted on Do 06 August 2020 in cloud field properties • by Theresa Mieslinger • Tagged with code, ASTER, DAY-0205

Read pre-processed netCDF files containing cloud field properties from ASTER images and plot those. Most interesting are the cloud size distribution and a 2d histogram showing the positive correlation between cloud sizes and their average cloud top heights.


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Using intake to access specMACS products

Posted on Mi 29 Juli 2020 in code examples • by Tobias Kölling • Tagged with code, specMACS, DAY-0205

This notebook demonstrates how to access the specMACS cloudmask product via an intake catalog. Additionally, a specific flight segment is selected from the flight metadata repository and the measured radiance is displayed.


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