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 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.

Below are example notebooks similar to those presented during the last EarthCARE Science and Validation workshops.

To install the AVL environment simply create a new conda environment and install the atmosphere-virtual-lab package:

All notebooks use eofetch to automatically download the example files from the OADS in case they are not already available in the current directory.
You should either set OADS_USERNAME and OADS_PASSWORD environment variables or manually put the file in the directory of the notebook.

You can then start jupyterlab within the activated avl conda environment using:

It is recommended to first go through all level-1 notebooks, since these have explanatory documentation blocks in them and show various features of HARP and AVL.

• CPR L1B (cpr_nom_1b) - notebook
• ATLID L1B (atl_nom_1b) - notebook
• MSI L1B (msi_nom_1b) - notebook
• BBR L1B (bbr_sng_1b) - notebook

The following notebooks are provided for level-2 data products (but lack further explanatory text):

• ATL_AER L2A ESA (atl_aer_2a) - notebook
• ATL_CLA L2A JAXA (atl_cla_2a) - notebook
• ATL_EBD L2A ESA (atl_ebd_2a) - notebook
• CPR_CLD L2A ESA (cpr_cld_2a) - notebook
• CPR_CLP L2A JAXA (cpr_clp_2a) - notebook
• CPR_ECO L2A JAXA (cpr_cld_2a) - notebook
• MSI_CLP L2A JAXA (msi_clp_2a) - notebook