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by meihan
Fri Jun 04, 2021 11:48 am America/New_York
Forum: Questions/Comments
Question: How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file
Replies: 5

Re: How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file

Thanks for the information. I will give a try of the two software at a later time. May I ask if the two software could work with level 2 orbital data? The two website pages do not directly show if they could deal with orbital data.

Thanks!
by meihan
Fri May 28, 2021 4:23 pm America/New_York
Forum: Questions/Comments
Question: How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file
Replies: 5

Re: How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file

Thanks a lot for your response! I definitely could use some help here. So, the SDC.READ already specifies the dataset, not the group. May I also ask if there is any more organized way to show the contents in the HDF file. The print(hdf.datasets()) can do the job, but I just could not find the variab...
by meihan
Fri May 28, 2021 7:36 am America/New_York
Forum: Questions/Comments
Question: How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file
Replies: 5

How to read CALIPSO level 3 HDF4 file

Hi, I am used to read HDF5 file. But I need to read CALIPSO level 3 which is HDF4. I tried a couple of ways with IDL or Python. It seems neither of them work. It looks like both with the problem to handle the hierarchy of data because the data array I am looking for is not at the first level. With I...