[gradsusr] Issues displaying Himawari-8 NetCDF file in Grads 2.1

Mike Manning michael at bsch.com.au
Sat Aug 15 00:31:57 EDT 2015


Thank you very much, MeteoInfoLab worked well!

Cheers, Mike

On 29/07/2015 5:32 PM, yaqiang.wang at gmail.com wrote:
> You may try to use MeteoInfoLab to display the Himawari-8 data. The 
> example script can be found in HDF-EOS forum: 
> http://hdfeos.org/forums/showthread.php?p=1588#post1588
>
>
>
> Regards
> Yaqiang
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> Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences (CAMS)
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> Beijing, 100081
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>     *From:* Mike Manning <mailto:michael at bsch.com.au>
>     *Date:* 2015-07-26 12:18
>     *To:* gradsusr <mailto:gradsusr at gradsusr.org>
>     *Subject:* Re: [gradsusr] Issues displaying Himawari-8 NetCDF file
>     in Grads 2.1
>     Hi Jim,
>
>     It's the sample Himawari-8 data on the BOM site:
>     ftp://ftp.bom.gov.au/anon/sample/catalogue/Satellite/IDE00220.201507140300.nc
>
>
>     Cheers, Mike
>
>     On 25/07/2015 2:56 PM, James T. Potemra wrote:
>>     Hi Mike,
>>
>>     From where are you getting these files?  The x,y coordinates are
>>     in meters and not degrees.  Without specifying the
>>     lat/lon it looks like you are getting the full disk image.  The
>>     netcdf files at JMA appear to be in lat/lon
>>     http://www.data.jma.go.jp/mscweb/en/himawari89/space_segment/sample_netcdf.html,
>>     but as yet they only
>>     seem to have the Japan-centric images.
>>
>>     Jim
>>
>>     On 7/23/15 8:00 PM, Mike Manning wrote:
>>>
>>>     Hi all,
>>>
>>>     I’m trying to display a Himawari-8 NetCDF file in Grads – here
>>>     are the attributes of the nc file:
>>>
>>>     dimensions:
>>>
>>>             time = UNLIMITED ; // (1 currently)
>>>
>>>             y = 22000 ;
>>>
>>>             x = 22000 ;
>>>
>>>     variables:
>>>
>>>             double time(time) ;
>>>
>>>                     time:coordinates = "time" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:long_name = "time" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:standard_name = "time" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:units = "seconds since 1970-01-01 00:00:00" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:calendar = "standard" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:axis = "T" ;
>>>
>>>                     time:unlimited = "True" ;
>>>
>>>             double y(y) ;
>>>
>>>                     y:coordinates = "y" ;
>>>
>>>                     y:long_name = "projection_y_coordinate" ;
>>>
>>>                     y:standard_name = "projection_y_coordinate" ;
>>>
>>>                     y:units = "m" ;
>>>
>>>                     y:axis = "Y" ;
>>>
>>>             double x(x) ;
>>>
>>>                     x:coordinates = "x" ;
>>>
>>>                     x:long_name = "projection_x_coordinate" ;
>>>
>>>                     x:standard_name = "projection_x_coordinate" ;
>>>
>>>                     x:units = "m" ;
>>>
>>>                     x:axis = "X" ;
>>>
>>>             float geostationary ;
>>>
>>>                     geostationary:proj4 = "+proj=geos +lon_0=140.7
>>>     +h=35785863 +x_0=0 +y_0=0 +a=6378137 +b=6356752.3 +units=m
>>>     +no_defs " ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:proj_name = "GEOS141" ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:grid_mapping_name = "geostationary" ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:longitude_of_projection_origin = 140.7 ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:perspective_point_height = 35785863. ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:satellite_height = 35785863. ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:semi_major_axis = 6378137. ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:semi_minor_axis = 6356752.3 ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:sweep_angle_axis = "y" ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:GeoTransform = -5500000., 500., 0., 5500000., 0.,
>>>     -500. ;
>>>
>>>     geostationary:spatial_ref = "PROJCS[\"unnamed\",GEOGCS[\"unnamed
>>>     ellipse\",DATUM[\"unknown\",SPHEROID[\"unnamed\",6378137,298.2570248822722]],PRIMEM[\"Greenwich\",0],UNIT[\"degree\",0.0174532925199433]],PROJECTION[\"Geostationary_Satellite\"],PARAMETER[\"central_meridian\",140.7],PARAMETER[\"satellite_height\",35785863],PARAMETER[\"false_easting\",0],PARAMETER[\"false_northing\",0]]"
>>>     ;
>>>
>>>             double scan_line_time(y) ;
>>>
>>>                     scan_line_time:units = "seconds since 2015-07-14
>>>     03:00:00" ;
>>>
>>>        scan_line_time:long_name = "estimated scan line time" ;
>>>
>>>     scan_line_time:calendar = "standard" ;
>>>
>>>     scan_line_time:coordinates = "y" ;
>>>
>>>             float channel_0003_brf(time, y, x) ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:_FillValue = 1.e+20f ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:least_significant_digit = 2s ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:algorithm_name = "channel_3_brf" ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:central_wavelength = 6.3915e-07 ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:comment = "bidirectional reflectance factor
>>>     observed by the Advanced Himawari Imager at 0.64 um (Band 3)" ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:long_name = "bidirectional reflectance factor
>>>     for channel 3 at 0.64 um" ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:units = "1" ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:valid_max = 1.2 ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:valid_min = 0. ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:coordinates = "time y x" ;
>>>
>>>     channel_0003_brf:grid_mapping = "geostationary" ;
>>>
>>>     I made a sample script as follows:
>>>
>>>     'sdfopen testfile.nc'
>>>
>>>     'd channel_0003_br'
>>>
>>>     'printim satimage.png'
>>>
>>>     'quit'
>>>
>>>     Ideally I want to be able to set a lat/lon region, but when I
>>>     specify any lat/lon region I just get a chart with a red
>>>     output.  When I don’t specify any lat/lon output at all, I get a
>>>     bizzare chart (I’m guessing because it’s using x and y
>>>     coordinates instead of lat/lon?) Is there any way to correctly
>>>     get this to display in grads at all?
>>>
>>>     Cheers, Mike
>>>
>>>
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