observingClouds/EUREC4A_movies

Movies done using data from the EUREC4A field campaign

EUREC4A/ATOMIC flight overview movies

Scripts to generate movies of GOES16 imagery with overlays of flight tracks and soundings.

Installation

# Install package requirements
pip install -r requirements.txt

# Install requirements of eurec4a-intake
pip install -r https://raw.githubusercontent.com/observingClouds/eurec4a-intake/master/requirements.txt

# Clone directory
git clone https://github.com/bfildier/EUREC4A_movies

All necessary data (satellite images, platform tracks, soundings data) is loaded automatically from online resources.

Creating the images

GOES16 satellite images are created with

python ./scripts/make_movie_opendap.py -d 20200205 --start_time 10:00 --stop_time 12:10

Creating the movie

Based on the images created above

python scripts/make_movie_opendap.py -d 20200205 --start_time 10:00 --stop_time 12:10

overlays the GOES16 images with flight trajectories and sounding trajectories.

Note: The images need to be created first and must exists for the requested times

Configuration

The configuration of the movies/images is done by the config-yaml files in ./config/

• Output directories and output are defined in ./config/output_user.yaml
• Selection of channel and colormap depending on day-time can be adapted in ./config/design.yaml by adding specific time sections:

  satellite:
    defaults:
      colormap: terrain
    timespecific:
      "00:00-10:59":
        colormap: RdBu_r
        channel: 13
        vmin: 260
        vmax: 302
      "11:00-20:59":
        colormap: RdBu_r
        channel: 2
        vmin: None
        vmax: None
      "21:00-23:59":
        colormap: RdBu_r
        channel: 13
        vmin: 260
        vmax: 302
  

  If a timestep is not within the specified time ranges, the default values are used.