; ; This example code illustrates how to access and visualize an ; NSIDC ICESat-2 ATL16 L3B HDF5 file in IDL. ; ; If you have any questions, suggestions, comments on this example, ; please use the HDF-EOS Forum (http://hdfeos.org/forums). ; ; If you would like to see an example of any other NASA HDF/HDF-EOS ; data product that is not listed in the HDF-EOS Comprehensive Examples page ; (http://hdfeos.org/zoo), feel free to contact us at eoshelp@hdfgroup.org ; or post it at the HDF-EOS Forum (http://hdfeos.org/forums). ; Usage: ; ; $idl ATL16_20210101010136_01231001_003_01.h5.idl ; ; Tested under: IDL 8.7.2 ; Last updated: 2021-05-10 ; Open file. file_name='ATL16_20210101010136_01231001_003_01.h5' file_id=H5F_OPEN(file_name) ; Read latitude. latitude_name='/global_grid_lat' latitude_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, latitude_name) lat=H5D_READ(latitude_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, latitude_id ; Read longitude. lon_name='/global_grid_lon' lon_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, lon_name) lon=H5D_READ(lon_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, lon_id ; Read temperature. data_name='/global_asr' data_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, data_name) data=H5D_READ(data_id) ; Read unit attribute. units_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, 'units') units=H5A_READ(units_id) H5A_CLOSE, units_id ; Read long name attribute. ln_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, 'long_name') long_name=H5A_READ(ln_id) H5A_CLOSE, ln_id ; Get '_FillValue' attribute. fv_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, '_FillValue') fv=H5A_READ(fv_id) H5A_CLOSE, fv_id ; Close dataset. H5D_CLOSE, data_id ; Close file. H5F_CLOSE, file_id ; Process fill value. data[WHERE(data EQ fv(0))] = !Values.F_NAN ; Generate the plot. m = MAP('Geographic', TITLE=file_name, FONT_SIZE=9, /BUFFER) ct = COLORTABLE(72, /reverse) t1 = TEXT(0.35, 0.01, FONT_SIZE=8, long_name) c1 = CONTOUR(data, lon, lat, /FILL, OVERPLOT=m,$ RGB_TABLE=ct, $ GRID_UNITS='degrees', POSITION=[0.1, 0.1, 0.83, 0.9]) mc = MAPCONTINENTS() cb = COLORBAR(TARGET=c1, /BORDER, ORIENTATION=1, TEXTPOS=1, $ POSITION=[0.85,0.2,0.87,0.8], TITLE=units) png = file_name + '.idl.png' c1.save, png, HEIGHT=600, WIDTH=800 EXIT