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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Hi,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’m trying to compare ISCCP products from COSP with real time data, i.e., ISCCP D2 monthly means.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve never worked with ISCCP before, and, while I can download a lot of data from Earthdata, they are in formats I do not recognise nor know how to handle.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Much of the isccp documents have email address that no longer work, so it is bit difficult to contact them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">While doing a search on the NCL webpage revealed:
<a href="https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/isccp.shtml">https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/isccp.shtml</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">But in this example the isccp data is already in netcdf format. I’m trying to get to this point.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Further, in the NCL archives I came across a similar problem back in 2005:
<a href="http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/all/1699.html">http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Support/talk_archives/all/1699.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">That seems to explain a bit how to read iSCCP D2 but much of this seem to me a black box.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Given the above information, how can I find information on how to read the D2 data onto a regular lat lon grid using NCL?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Anyone in the know, or with experience, out there and care to share?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">I’ve attached the SDS hdf file but I don’t know what’s in the file and the data looks very strange.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">/M<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Marston S. Ward, PhD<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Department of Earth Sciences<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">University of Gothenburg, Sweden<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">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="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">SkypeID: marston.johnston <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Phone: +46-31-7864901 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Only the fruitful thing is true!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#0070C0;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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