AAPP Visualisation

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

DMI/SMHI: 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>.