; ; This example code illustrates how to access and visualize PO.DAAC AQUARIUS ; SSS L2 Swath HDF5 file in NCL. ; ; 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 Q2011280003000.L2_SCI_V5.0.h5.idl ; ; Tested under: IDL 8.7.2 ; Last updated: 2019-10-18 ; Open file. file_name='Q2011280003000.L2_SCI_V5.0.h5'; file_id=H5F_OPEN(file_name) ; Read data. datafield_name='/Aquarius Data/SSS' data_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id,datafield_name) data=H5D_READ(data_id) ; Get title. long_name_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, 'long_name') long_name=H5A_READ(long_name_id) H5A_Close, long_name_id ; Get units. units_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, 'units') units=H5A_READ(units_id) H5A_Close, units_id ; Get fill value. fv_id=H5A_OPEN_NAME(data_id, '_FillValue') fillvalue=H5A_READ(fv_id) H5A_Close, units_id ; Close dataset. H5D_Close, data_id ; Read latitude. latitude_name='/Navigation/sclat' latitude_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, latitude_name) lat=H5D_READ(latitude_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_Close, latitude_id ; Read longitude. lon_name='/Navigation/sclon' lon_id=H5D_OPEN(file_id, lon_name) lon=H5D_READ(lon_id) ; Close dataset. H5D_Close, lon_id ; Close file. H5F_Close, file_id ; Convert type to double. dataf = float(data) ; Process fill value. idx=where(data eq fillvalue, cnt) if cnt gt 0 then dataf[idx] = !Values.F_NAN ; Subset data. data=dataf(0,*) datamin=MIN(dataf) datamax=MAX(dataf) ; Generate the plot. m = MAP('Geographic', TITLE=file_name, FONT_SIZE=9, /BUFFER) ; Dataset has fill value. Use color table that starts with white color. ct = COLORTABLE(22) t1 = TEXT(0.35, 0.2, long_name) ; We use SCATTERPLOT because data is 2-d lat/lon swath. ; lon[*]/lat[*]/dataf[*] will make 1-d dataset. c1 = SCATTERPLOT(lon, lat, OVERPLOT=m, $ MAGNITUDE = data, $ RGB_TABLE=ct, $ POSITION=[0.1, 0.1, 0.83, 0.9],$ /SYM_FILLED, SYMBOL='o', SYM_SIZE=0.1) mc = MAPCONTINENTS() ; We need custom colorbar because we use SCATTERPLOT(). ; We cannot use TARGET=c1. cb = COLORBAR(RGB_TABLE=ct, RANGE=[datamin, datamax], /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