<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">Dear NCL users,</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">I am trying to read Meteosat 5 and 7 (on Indian Ocean) which are in HDF5 (hf) format. As you know this format has no certain data structure. So I need help form some one how has experience with these data. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">My questions are:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large">1- Data type are in ubyte type and I think it should be unpacked via dim_gbits function (<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_gbits.shtml">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_gbits.shtml</a>). Hence, I need following information about Meteosat 5 and 7 in Infrared band:</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"> </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">a) A bit-count offset to be used before the first bit chunk is unpacked. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">b) The number of bits in each bit chunk to be unpacked.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">c) The number of bits to skip between each bit chunk to be unpacked</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">d) The number of bit chunks to be unpacked</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">2- Can you please help me to find latitude and longitude information in metadata?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">Please kindly find metadata description and part of data in Infrared band in the attachment. <br></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">===========================================</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">Seyed Omid Nabavi;</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">PhD student, University of Vienna,</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">Faculty of Earth Sciences, Geography and Astronomy</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">Department of Geography and Regional Research</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">UZA II Althanstrasse 14 A-1010 Vienna</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;color:rgb(127,127,127)">Uni. Email: <a href="mailto:seyed.omid.nabavi@unet.univie.ac.at" target="_blank">seyed.omid.nabavi@unet.univie.ac.at</a></span></p>
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