[ncl-talk] Classification of different cloud types

[Dennis Shea]

Fixed

*http://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/cloudsat.shtml*
<http://test.www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/cloudsat.shtml>

*cloudsat_2*
and

*cloudsat_poly_2*

;===============================================================
; Unpack: Commented code is for unpacking ALL the packed information
;===============================================================

  cstyp   = *dim_gbits*
<https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Document/Functions/Built-in/dim_gbits.shtml>(cs,11,4,12,nbin)
  ; 1-4    Cloud scenario [type]




On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 5:07 PM Soma Roy <somaroy892 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I would like to inform that the below example is not working at all. .
>
> https://www.ncl.ucar.edu/Applications/Scripts/cloudsat_2.ncl
>
> So it is better that either remove it totally or update it according to
> meaningful away. There is no sign of "decode" based on bit fields as
> mentioned in Table 5 in the site.
>
> Thanks,
> Soma
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 21:26 Soma Roy <somaroy892 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> There is one example under cloudsat..
>> Specifically, I am talking about cloudsat_2.ncl script.
>>
>> Algorithm and criteria is mentioned there. But it doesn't classify cloud
>> types as per the colorbar in the said example.
>>
>> Can you inform me how to modify it in terms of cloud class?
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Soma
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019, 20:52 Dennis Shea <shea at ucar.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> [1] NCL has no cloud classification procedure/function.
>>>
>>> [2] re:  2B-CLDCLASS
>>>
>>> *http://hdfeos.org/zoo/* <http://hdfeos.org/zoo/>
>>>
>>> has a large number of software examples in NCL, Matlab, IDL and Python
>>> examples.
>>> Perhaps, one of these examples could be useful to you.
>>>
>>> D
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 25, 2019 at 2:29 AM Soma Roy via ncl-talk <ncl-talk at ucar.edu>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hello,
>>>> Is there any procedures to classify clouds in ncl?
>>>>
>>>> I am using product 2B-CLDCLASS.
>>>> I want to visualize different cloud types (as under the cloud_scenario)
>>>> against Altitude vs latitude and Altitude vs longitude.
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Soma
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