EarthCARE support in AVL
With AVL you can:
- Use HARP to import data from EarthCARE products in a common data structure (similar to other satellite missions and ground based data)
- Perform detailed collocations and inter-comparisons to validate the EarthCARE data against ground based measurements
- Perform interactive visualisations of EarthCARE in jupyterlab environments with the AVL plotting routines.
An overview of the EarthCARE products that are supported by HARP can be found in the HARP ingestion definition documentation. This also provides a description of the variables that are supported per product type and from where in the product they are taken.
WARNING: EarthCARE products only contain height information relative to the reference ellipsoid. Even though HARP ingests these variables as
altitude variables, the height values are not actual altitudes. Care must be taken when performing validations that require an accurate vertical grid. A future version of the EarthCARE products should include geoid height information to calculate actual altitudes. Once these products are released HARP will be updated to extract actual altitude variables.
Below are the example notebooks as were presented during the webinar on 26 June 2023:
- presentation - powerpoint
- demo1 - read and visualize ACM data - notebook, webpage
- demo2 - read and visualize MSI data - notebook, webpage
- demo3 - lidar profile comparison using S5P - notebook, webpage
Note that some variables in the HARP ingestion may be changed based on the result of this HARP ticket.