The Basics of NASAMergedTb.jl

There are two essential components in NASAMergedTb.jl

• The Dataset of interest (i.e., a Brightness Temperature TbDataset btd or a Classification SDDataset sdd)

• A geographic region of interest (i.e., a GeoRegion geo)

With these two components, you can perform the following actions:

• Download data of interest using download(btd,geo)

• Perform basic analysis on the data using analysis(btd,geo)

• Manipulate the data (e.g., spatiotemporal smoothing using smooth(btd,geo,...))

• Classify regions of shallow and deep convection using classify(btd,geo)

The TbDataset Type

The TbDataset and SDDataset types contains the following information:

• start - The beginning of the date-range of our data of interest

• stop - The end of the date-range of our data of interest

• path - The data directory in which our dataset is saved into

NASAMergedTb.TbDataset Type

TbDataset

The TbDataset Type contains the following fields:

• ID : ID for the TbDataset, used in determining containing folders and filenames of the NetCDF

• name : The name describing the TbDataset, used mostly in Logging

• doi : The DOI identifier, to be saved into the NetCDF

• start : The start date (Y,M,D) of our download / analysis

• stop : The end date (Y,M,D) of our download / analysis

• path : The directory in which to save our downloads and analysis files to

• hroot : The URL of the NASA's EOSDIS OPeNDAP server for which this dataset is stored

• fpref : The prefix component of the NetCDF files to be downloaded

• fsuff : The suffix component of the NetCDF files to be downloaded

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NASAMergedTb.SDDataset Type

SDDataset

The SDDataset Type contains the following fields:

• ID : ID for the SDDataset, used in determining containing folders and filenames of the NetCDF

• name : The name describing the SDDataset, used mostly in Logging

• start : The start date (Y,M,D) of our download / analysis

• stop : The end date (Y,M,D) of our download / analysis

• path : The directory in which to save our downloads and analysis files to

• shallow : The temperature threshold for shallow clouds (inclusive of)

• deep : The temperature threshold for deep convective clouds (inclusive of)

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The AbstractGeoRegion Type

A GeoRegion defines the geometry/geometries of geograhical region(s) of interest. See the documentation of GeoRegions.jl for more information.

GeoRegions.AbstractGeoRegion Type

AbstractGeoRegion

Abstract supertype for geographical regions. All AbstractGeoRegion types contain the following fields:

• ID - A String Type, the identifier for the GeoRegion.

• pID - A String Type, the identifier for the parent GeoRegion.

• name - A String Type, the full name of the GeoRegion.

• path - A String Type, the path of the file containing information on this GeoRegion.

• N - A Float Type, contains the northernmost latitude bound.

• S - A Float Type, contains the southernmost latitude bound.

• E - A Float Type, contains the easternmost longitude bound.

• W - A Float Type, contains the westernmost longitude bound.

• θ - A Float Type, the rotation projection for the data in the GeoRegion

• geometry - A Geometry or Vector{Geometry} Type

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