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--></style></head><body bgcolor=white lang=EN-GB link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>It would be good to know how the mask is stored, i.e., whether as bit information in which case you need to do bitwise shift to see if the flag is set or not.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>Without knowing how the information is stored, it is hard to help. I made the assumption that the mask is stored as a ushort which was scaled and stored for compression.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>But that assumption might not be true. I don’t know how MODIS stored the information. Can you read up on it to ensure the ushort variable has a scale and offset attribute?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'>/M<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>Marston S. Johnston, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>Department of Earth Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>University of Gothenburg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>Email: <a href="mailto:marston.johnston@gu.se"><span style='color:#0070C0'>marston.johnston@gu.se</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>SkypeID: marston.johnston <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>Phone: +46-31-7864901 <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>Only the fruitful thing is true!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;mso-fareast-language:EN-US'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Michael Notaro <mnotaro@wisc.edu><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 13 June 2017 at 22:46<br><b>To: </b>Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com>, "ncl-talk@ucar.edu" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ncl-talk] hdf confusion<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Thanks. I tried the following and only end up with a 2d grid of values like 2066, 18709, etc.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>How can I retrieve slot [11-13] land/water flag with values like 000, 001, 010, etc?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>aa=addfile("h10v04_yellowstone/MOD13Q1.A2012001.h10v04.006.2015236172021.hdf.hdfeos","r")<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lat2d=doubletofloat(aa->GridLat_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI(::-1,:))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lon2d=doubletofloat(aa->GridLon_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI(::-1,:))<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lat2d!0="nlat"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lat2d!1="nlon"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lon2d!0="nlat"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>lon2d!1="nlon"<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>land=short2flt_hdf(aa->250m_16_days_VI_Quality_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='font-variant-ligatures: normal;font-variant-caps: normal;font-stretch: normal'><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>print(land)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div id=Signature><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Michael Notaro<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Associate Director<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>University of Wisconsin-Madison<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Phone: (608) 261-1503<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Email: mnotaro@wisc.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><hr size=2 width="98%" align=center></span></div><div id=divRplyFwdMsg><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> Marston Johnston <shejo284@gmail.com><br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 13, 2017 3:37 PM<br><b>To:</b> Michael Notaro; ncl-talk@ucar.edu<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [ncl-talk] hdf confusion</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><div><div><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Hi,</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Try this function: <a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/short2flt_hdf.shtml" id=LPlnk689512><span style='color:#0563C1'>http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/short2flt_hdf.shtml</span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='margin-bottom:15.0pt;overflow:auto' id="LPBorder_GT_14973867285290.06995087272877232"><table class=MsoNormalTable border=1 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width="90%" style='width:90.0%;background:white;border-top:dotted #C8C8C8 1.0pt;border-left:none;border-bottom:dotted #C8C8C8 1.0pt;border-right:none'><tr><td valign=top style='border:none;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 0cm'><div id="LPTitle_14973867285280.31343705378197484"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:15.75pt'><span style='font-size:16.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#B70101'><a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Contributed/short2flt_hdf.shtml" target="_blank"><span style='text-decoration:none'>short2flt_hdf - ncl.ucar.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div style='margin-top:7.5pt;margin-bottom:12.0pt' id="LPMetadata_14973867285290.4505598811685758"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;line-height:10.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666666'>www.ncl.ucar.edu<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id="LPDescription_14973867285290.9924752587515622"><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:15.0pt;line-height:15.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Tahoma;color:#666666'>NCL Home > Documentation > Functions > Type converters short2flt_hdf. Converts values of type short to values of type float using the "scale" and "offset" attributes ...<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></td></tr></table></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'>/M</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>Marston S. Johnston, PhD</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>Department of Earth Sciences</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>University of Gothenburg, Sweden</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>Email: <a href="mailto:marston.johnston@gu.se"><span style='color:#0070C0'>marston.johnston@gu.se</span></a></span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>SkypeID: marston.johnston </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>Phone: +46-31-7864901 </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>Only the fruitful thing is true!</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='color:#0070C0'>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0cm 0cm 0cm'><p><b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>From: </span></b><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><ncl-talk-bounces@ucar.edu> on behalf of Michael Notaro <mnotaro@wisc.edu><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, 13 June 2017 at 22:33<br><b>To: </b>"ncl-talk@ucar.edu" <ncl-talk@ucar.edu><br><b>Subject: </b>[ncl-talk] hdf confusion</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p><span style='color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Sorry for the ignorant question but I am having trouble figuring out<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>how to properly retrieve the land-lake-ocean mask off this MODIS hdf file.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>If I ncl_filedump *hdf, it shows the variable as ushort. If I ncl_filedump *hdf.hdfeos,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>it shows the variable as short. Which should I use in addfile and how do I <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>retrieve the values of 001=land, 000=ocean, etc?<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>ncl_filedump h10v04_yellowstone/MOD13Q1.A2012001.h10v04.006.2015236172021.hdf.hdfeos</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> short 250m_16_days_VI_Quality_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI ( YDim_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI, XDim_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI )</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> coordinates :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>GridLat_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI, GridLon_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> hdfeos_name :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>250m 16 days VI Quality</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> projection :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>Sinusoidal</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> unsigned :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>True</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> Legend :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>Bit Fields Description (Right to Left): </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[0-1] : MODLAND_QA [2 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>00: VI produced, good quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>01: VI produced, but check other QA </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>10: Pixel produced, but most probably cloudy </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>11: Pixel not produced due to other reasons than clouds </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[2-5] : VI usefulness [4 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0000: Highest quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0001: Lower quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0010..1010: Decreasing quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1100: Lowest quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1101: Quality so low that it is not useful </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1110: L1B data faulty </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1111: Not useful for any other reason/not processed </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[6-7] : Aerosol quantity [2 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>00: Climatology </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>01: Low </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>10: Average </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>11: High (11) </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[8] : Adjacent cloud detected; [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[9] : Atmosphere BRDF correction performed [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[10] : Mixed clouds [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[11-13] : Land/Water Flag [3 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>000: Shallow ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>001: Land (Nothing else but land) </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>010: Ocean coastlines and lake shorelines </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>011: Shallow inland water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>100: Ephemeral water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>101: Deep inland water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>110: Moderate or continental ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>111: Deep ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[14] : Possible snow/ice [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[15] : Possible shadow [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> _FillValue :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>-1</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> valid_range :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>( 0, -2 )</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> units :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>bit field</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> long_name :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>250m 16 days VI Quality</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>ncl_filedump h10v04_yellowstone/MOD13Q1.A2012001.h10v04.006.2015236172021.hdf</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> ushort 250m_16_days_VI_Quality ( YDim_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI, XDim_MODIS_Grid_16DAY_250m_500m_VI )</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> long_name :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>250m 16 days VI Quality</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> units :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>bit field</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> valid_range :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>( 0, 65534 )</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> _FillValue :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>65535</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> Legend :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>Bit Fields Description (Right to Left): </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[0-1] : MODLAND_QA [2 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>00: VI produced, good quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>01: VI produced, but check other QA </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>10: Pixel produced, but most probably cloudy </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>11: Pixel not produced due to other reasons than clouds </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[2-5] : VI usefulness [4 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0000: Highest quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0001: Lower quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0010..1010: Decreasing quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1100: Lowest quality </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1101: Quality so low that it is not useful </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1110: L1B data faulty </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1111: Not useful for any other reason/not processed </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[6-7] : Aerosol quantity [2 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>00: Climatology </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>01: Low </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>10: Average </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>11: High (11) </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[8] : Adjacent cloud detected; [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[9] : Atmosphere BRDF correction performed [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[10] : Mixed clouds [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[11-13] : Land/Water Flag [3 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>000: Shallow ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>001: Land (Nothing else but land) </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>010: Ocean coastlines and lake shorelines </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>011: Shallow inland water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>100: Ephemeral water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>101: Deep inland water </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>110: Moderate or continental ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>111: Deep ocean </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[14] : Possible snow/ice [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>[15] : Possible shadow [1 bit range] </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>1: Yes </span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>0: No</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'> hdf_name :</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Menlo;color:black'>250m 16 days VI Quality</span><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> </span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'> <o:p></o:p></span></p><div id=Signature><div id=divtagdefaultwrapper><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Michael Notaro</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Associate Director</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Nelson Institute Center for Climatic Research</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>University of Wisconsin-Madison</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Phone: (608) 261-1503</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p style='background:white'><span style='font-family:Calibri;color:black'>Email: mnotaro@wisc.edu</span><span style='color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><p><span style='color:black'>_______________________________________________ ncl-talk mailing list 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