4.4. DR-RTV Frontend

The Dual Regression Retrieval (DR-RTV) frontend reads HDF5 files created by DR-RTV software created by Bill Smith Sr., Elisabeth Wiessz, and Nadia Smith at the Space Science and Engineering Center.

Note that Dual Regression products are indexed differently than other satellite-based products:
[in-track, cross-track] for 2D variables [level, in-track, cross-track] for 3D variables

The frontend provides the products listed below. Some products are extracted per pressure level and has special suffixes. Suffixes are “_100mb”, “_200mb”, “_300mb”, “_400mb”, “_500mb”, “_600mb”, “_700mb”, and “_800mb”.

Product Name Description
CAPE Convective Available Potential Energy
CO2_Amount Carbon Dioxide Amount
COT Cloud Optical Thickness
CTP Cloud Top Pressure
CTT Cloud Top Temperature
CldEmis Cloud Emissivity
Cmask Cloud Mask
Lifted_Index Lifted Index
SurfPres Surface Pressure
TSurf Surface Temperature
totH2O Total Water
totO3 Total Ozone
Level based products
Dewpnt_100mb Dewpoint Temperature
H2OMMR_100mb Water Mixing Ratio
O3VMR_100mb Ozone Mixing Ratio
RelHum_100mb Relative Humidity
TAir_100mb Air Temperature

author:Ray Garcia (rayg)
author:David Hoese (davidh)
organization:Space Science and Engineering Center (SSEC)
copyright:Copyright (c) 2012-2015 University of Wisconsin SSEC. All rights reserved.
date:Nov 2014
license:GNU GPLv3

4.4.1. Command Line Arguments

usage: p2g_glue drrtv <backend> [-h] [--list-products]
                                [-p PRODUCTS [PRODUCTS ...]] [--tair-products]
                                [--dewpoint-products] [--water-mmr-products]
                                [--ozone-vmr-products] [--relhum-products]
Options:
--list-products=False
 List available frontend products and exit
-p, --products Specify frontend products to process
--tair-products
 Add all TAir products to the list of products to create
--dewpoint-products
 Add all dewpoint products to the list of products to create
--water-mmr-products
 Add all Water MMR products to the list of products to create
--ozone-vmr-products
 Add all Ozone VMR products to the list of products to create
--relhum-products
 Add all relative humidity products to the list of products to create