Software and Data

  • Software for AIRS (Atmospheric Infrared Sounder) deconvolution and the translation of AIRS to CrIS (Cross-grack Infrared Sounder) radiances. Methods are described in the AIRS deconvolution paper, listed in my CV. We have been using these tools for some time to evaluate AIRS and CrIS simultaneous nadir overpasses (SNOs). We also have software for deconvolution and the translation of IASI (Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer) to CrIS radiances, a much easier task than the AIRS translation. airs_decon and iasi_decon are available as GitHub repos.

  • Based in part on the work above we developed CHIRP, a Climate Hyper-spectral Infrared Product. This is a translation of AIRS, CrIS, and we hope eventually IASI radiances to a common format, as part of a long term global climate record. CHIRP takes advantage of similar spatial sampling, translates AIRS and CrIS radiances to a common spectral response function, and attempts to remove inter-satellite biases. Software is available as a GitHub repo, Data is available as a NASA product at GES DISC, and a User Guide is also available at GES DISC.

  • Software to reorganize AIRS L1c data as a tiling in which each tile has approximately the same number of observations, saved in time order for that tile. This can be convenient for local or regional analysis. Source for the AIRS tiling is available at GitHub. We have the AIRS tiling as a local product from mission start to a few months ago. There is a similar tiling for CHIRP, done by JPL using the AIRS tiling as a prototype, available on AWS with entry point "aws s3 ls s3://nasa-chirp-tiling".

  • Tools for spectral calibration and analysis of data from pre-launch thermal vacuum (TVAC) tests of the Cross-track Infrared Sounder (CrIS), a Fourier transform infrared spectrometer on the NOAA Suomi NPP and JPSS weather satellites. Software and summary data are available from GitHub for J1, J2, J3, and J4. See the README in the git repos for an overview of the software. Test reports for J1--J4 are also available.

  • The UMBC verson of the CrIS Calibration Algorithm and Sensor Testbed (CCAST), software to take CrIS level 0 (telemetery) data to calibrated radiances. We used this for most of our CrIS tests and analysis through around 2022, and have periodically reprocessed all SNPP, J1 and J2 data from the start of their respective missions. See the README for a list of significant features relative to the similar NOAA and NASA/UW products. CCAST is available at GitHub.

  • A package ``obs_stats'' to do long-span all-obs stats from AIRS and CrIS SDR and other supporting data, including equal area maps of mean, variance, PDFs, and trends. See the README files in the top level and obs_source directories for more details. obs_stats is available at GitHub.

  • An early version of a Matlab package for radiative transfer calculations from compressed tabulated optical depths (a Matlab version of ``kcarta'', see references in my CV), along with tools and scripts for building a database of compressed tabulated optical depths from HITRAN data.

  • The Radiative Transfer Profile (RTP) package, an HDF 4 data format and application interface for storage and manipulation of atmospheric profiles and associated spectra. Also assorted Matlab HDF 4 tools, including a Matlab RTP interface. RTP is used extensively in our applications. RTP is available at GitHub.



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