boonleng / radar2nc

Radar data to NetCDF. Note that this is not CFRadial NetCDF.

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RADAR2NC

This is a utility to convert data downloaded from NCDC archive into NetCDF files that iRadar can readily display.

Requirements

On Linux:

  • GCC GNU C Compiler
  • NetCDF NetCDF library framework
  • RSL TRMM Radar Software Library

On Mac:

NCDC Archive

NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) provides historical radar data through the NCDC archive accessible through a web portal

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/nexradinv/map.jsp

TRMM Radar Software Library

NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) GSFC (Goddard Space Flight Center) provides a software library for ingesting various format of radar data. The library depends on several other libraries so be sure the NetCDF, and HDF5, if you want supported, are installed prior to the installation of the library. The RSL can be downloaded from

http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/

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Radar data to NetCDF. Note that this is not CFRadial NetCDF.


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