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Tools
Aura data products are mostly in the new HDF-EOS5 file format (level 2 and 3), however there are some products which are not (level 1 OMI is in the old HDF-EOS2.x, and level 1 MLS is in plain HDF5).You will need to choose the correct software to read a particular data product (see the descriptions of the data product levels below for more information).
In some cases, conversion tools exist to convert data from one format to another.One may convert older HDF-EOS2.x to the new HDF-EOS5 format.One may also convert files from old HDF4.x to the new HDF5 format, and vice versa. Note that HDF-EOS files are a collection of HDF objects.Thus HDF software will read HDF-EOS files, but you must choose the correct version, as HDF5 is not backward compatible with the old HDF4 format.
The table below lists some readers and visualization tools including**Giovanni**,an on-line visualization service.
Descriptions on other tools can be found at the HDF-EOS home page. For information about the HDF or HDF5 format, please see the HDF home page.
| Readers and Visualization Tools for Aura Files in :
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| Data Tool |
Computer Language |
Operating System / Platform |
Input Data Formats |
Output Data Formats |
Visualization |
Subsetting |
| read_h5 |
C |
Sun, SGI, Linux |
HDF5,
HDF-EOS 5 |
ASCII, Binary |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| read_hdf |
C |
Sun, SGI, Linux |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x |
ASCII, Binary |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| get_h5_dataset |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF5,
HDF-EOS 5 |
ASCII, Binary |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| get_h4_dataset |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x |
ASCII, Binary |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| atmos_h5 |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF5, HDF-EOS 5 |
ASCII, Binary, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel |
| atmos_h4 |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x, |
ASCII, Binary, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel |
| read_mls_l2 |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF5, HDF-EOS5 |
ASCII |
N/A |
Parameter |
| read_omi_l2 |
IDL |
All platforms, needs IDL |
HDF-EOS5 |
|
N/A |
Parameter |
| HDFView |
C, Java |
Sun, SGI, Windows, Linux |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x ,
HDF5, HDF-EOS 5 |
HDF, ASCII, XML, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| Integrated Data Viewer (IDV) |
C, Java |
Sun, SGI, Windows, Linux |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x ,
HDF5, HDF-EOS 5 |
HDF, ASCII, XML, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| Panoply(file Viewer for Gridded data) |
C, Java |
Sun, SGI, Windows, Linux |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS 2.x ,
HDF5, HDF-EOS 5 |
HDF, ASCII, XML, JPEG |
Subsets,Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel, Spatial |
| H5_Browser |
IDL |
All platforms (needs IDL) |
HDF5, HDF-EOS 5 |
ASCII, Binary, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel |
| HDF_Browser |
IDL |
All platforms (needs IDL) |
HDF4, HDF-EOS2.x |
ASCII, Binary, JPEG |
Quick Look |
Parameter, Channel |
| HEG |
C, Java |
Sun, SGI, Windows, Linux |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS2.x |
HDF-EOS Grid, GeoTIFF, Binary |
Re-projection |
Parameter, Channel, Sub-sampling |
| BEAT |
C, Java,
(IDL, Matlab, and Python Interface)
|
Sun, SGI, Windows, Linux, MAC |
HDF,
HDF-EOS2.x
HDF5, HDF-EOS5, ASCII, Binary |
HDF,
HDF-EOS2.x
HDF5, HDF-EOS5, ASCII, Binary |
Different Projections |
Parameter, Channel |
| Format Converters and Other useful tools for Files in HDF Formats |
| Data Tool |
Computer Language |
Operating System / Platform |
Input Data Formats |
Output Data Formats |
Visualization |
Subsetting |
hdp
|
C |
Linux, Solaris, Windows |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS2.x |
ASCII, Binary |
N/A |
Object |
| h5dump |
C |
Linux, FreeBSD, MacOS, Solaris, Windows |
HDF5,
HDF-EOS5 |
ASCII, Binary, XML |
N/A |
Array, Object |
| h4toh5 |
C |
Linux, Solaris, Windows |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS2.x |
HDF5 |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel |
| h5toh4 |
C |
Linux, Solaris, Windows |
HDF5,
HDF-EOS5 |
HDF4 |
N/A |
Parameter, Channel |
| heconvert |
C |
Linux, MacOS, SunOS |
HDF4,
HDF-EOS2.x |
HDF-EOS Grid, GeoTIFF, Binary |
Different Projections |
Parameter, Channel |
| hdfeos52netcdf |
C |
All platforms |
HDF5,
HDF-EOS5.x |
netCDF |
N/A |
N/A |
| Data Mining & Data Servers for Aura and Aura related Data Products |
| Data Tool |
Computer Language |
Operating System / Platform |
Input Data Formats |
Output Data Formats |
Visualization |
Subsetting |
Aura/OMI-Giovanni
(on-line, web- based annalysis) |
GrADS, perl |
All Platforms |
HDF-EOS |
ASCII |
Different Projections, Area Maps (temporal average), Time series (spatial average) |
All types |
TOMS-Giovanni
(on-line, web- based annalysis) |
GrADS, perl |
All Platforms |
HDF-EOS |
ASCII |
Different Projections, Area Maps (temporal average), Time series (spatial average) |
All types |
Aura/MLS-Giovanni
(on-line, web-based annalysis) |
GrADS, perl |
All Platforms |
HDF-EOS |
ASCII |
Verticle Profiles of Trace Gases |
All types |
|
Aura/HIRDLS Giovanni
(on-line, web-based annalysis)
|
GrADS,perl |
All Platforms |
HDF-EOS |
ASCII |
Different Projections, Area Maps (temporal average), Time series (spatial average) |
All types |
Aura/TES Giovanni
(on-line, web-based annalysis) |
GrADS,perl |
All Platforms |
HDF-EOS |
ASCII |
Different Projections, Area Maps (temporal average), Time series (spatial average) |
All types |
UARS/HALOE-Giovanni
(on-line, web-based annalysis) |
GrADS, perl |
All Platforms |
Binary |
ASCII |
Vertical Profiles of Parameters and Std. Dev., Event Selection |
All types |
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