; -IDL script to create .GIF files of AMSU-B Channel 16 (89GHz) ;- Created: 29 Jun 99 Kurt F. Brueske ;- Modified: 11 Jun 00 Open tbdata.dat, lat.dat, lon.dat, parameters.dat and nhcbulletin.txt generated by ;- ty:/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/epac/limbfixer_epac' ;- 11 Jun 00 Copied from ch16_epac41.pro and modified for use with sectorized AMSU-B ;- data. Numscans no longer provided in parameters.dat since value is always 60... ;- 5 Dec 00 Copied from *epac*.pro ;- WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC BASIN PROCESSING ;- Set up Z buffer in 2D mode (allows script to run in background)... set_plot,'Z' device,z_buffer=0,set_colors=256,set_resolution=[725,550],set_character_size = [ 6, 9 ] ;- Get storm information... info=strarr(6) openr,1,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/parameters.dat' readf,1,info close,1 openr,1,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/parameters.dat' readf,1,latin,lonin close,1 ;- Define arrays and number of scan lines in sectorized AMSU-B file... numscans=60 t=fltarr(5,90,numscans) lat=fltarr(90,numscans) lon=lat ;- Open data files... openr,1,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/tbdatab.dat' readf,1,t close,1 openr,2,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/latb.dat' readf,2,lat close,2 openr,3,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/lonb.dat' readf,3,lon close,3 ;- Create plots... sat1 = info[5] sat = String(sat1, Format='(A7)') erase ;-Channel 16 plotamsub,reform(t[0,*,*]),numscans,lat,lon,latin,lonin,info[3],info[2],8,0,0,sat restore,filename='/home2/kurtb/amsu/idl/amsubcolors.sav' tvlct,r,g,b write_gif,'/home2/kurtb/amsu/run/derrick/science2002/procfiles/amsub_ch16.gif',tvrd(),r,g,b exit