Quicklooks

Especially during a campaign it is important to get a quick look into the measured data. Usually those quicklooks are provided by each instrument operator or team shortly after the flight. For HALO-(AC)3 a hackathon was held to prepare those quicklooks for each instrument to get a set of comparable plots for each flight.

Another idea was to generate quicklook files which are mostly unprocessed subsets of the original measurement data, but can be shared and used by other groups easily to prepare combined quicklooks or to correct their measurements.

From LIM side there are quicklooks provided for:

For HALO-SMART there are also two quicklook nc files generated:

bahamas_quicklook_halo_ac3.py

Produces the standard BAHAMAS quicklook for HALO-(AC)3

Quicklooks:

  • map with sea ice extent and flight track

  • TBD: map with MODIS image and flight track

  • Movement quicklook

  • Meteo quicklook

Input:

  • flight

  • Path to files

  • save figure flag

author: Johannes Röttenbacher

halo_smart_quicklook_halo_ac3.py

TBD

smart_write_ncfile_ql.py

Given a flight and campaign write a well documented netCDF file containing only certain wavelengths from HALO-SMART for quicklooks. Add Roll and Pitch angles from the SMART INS to filter the data.

Two options:

  1. One spectrometer = one file

  2. One flight = one file

Use option 2 because only a couple of wavelengths will be used.

This script can be used during campaigns to quickly generate files for quicklooks and sharing with other groups. Before the script smart_write_INS_ql_file.py should generate the INS ql file

author: Johannes Röttenbacher

smart_write_INS_ql_file.py

Create a 1Hz INS file for quicklook processing directly after the flight

Input: SMART IMS and GPS data

Output: 1Hz INS netCDF file

author: Johannes Röttenbacher