The AIRS Code Collection enables data processing and analysis for remote sensing observations captured by NASA's Atmospheric InfraRed Sounder.
This documentation describes the installation on a Linux system. A number of standard tools such as the GNU Compiler Collection (gcc) and 'make' are required for installation.
Start by downloading the source code from the git repository:
git clone https://github.com/slcs-jsc/airs.git
Change to the directory airs/ which holds source codes, libraries, documentation, etc:
cd airs
The GNU Scientific Library is required for numerical calculations and the Unidata netCDF library is needed for file-I/O. Furthermore, the HDF4 and HDFEOS libraries are required to read AIRS data. Copies of these libraries can be found in the repository, if they are not available on your system. A script is provided to build the libraries:
cd [airs_directory]/libs
./build.sh
Next, change to the source directory and edit the Makefile according to your needs. In particular, check the paths to the libraries (INCDIR and LIBDIR). Then try to compile the code:
cd [airs_directory]/src
emacs Makefile
make
The binaries will be linked statically, i.e., they can be copied to other machines. Sometimes static compilations causes problems, in particular in combination with MPI. In this case remove the '-static' flag from the CFLAGS in the Makefile and compile again.
By default we use rather strict compiler warnings. All warning messages will be turned into errors and no binaries will be produced. This behavior is enforced by the flag '-Werror'.
The binaries will remain in the src/ directory.
The AIRS gravity wave data sets can be found in this repository:
- Hoffmann, Lars, 2021, "AIRS/Aqua Observations of Gravity Waves", https://doi.org/10.26165/JUELICH-DATA/LQAAJA, Jülich DATA, V1.
These are the main scientific publications that provide information about the AIRS Code Collection:
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Hoffmann, L., and Alexander, M. J., Retrieval of stratospheric temperatures from Atmospheric Infrared Sounder radiance measurements for gravity wave studies, J. Geophys. Res., 114, D07105, https://doi.org/10.1029/2008JD011241, 2009.
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Hoffmann, L., X. Xue, and M. J. Alexander, A global view of stratospheric gravity wave hotspots located with Atmospheric Infrared Sounder observations, J. Geophys. Res. Atmos., 118, 416-434, https://doi.org/10.1029/2012JD018658, 2013.
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Hoffmann, L., Alexander, M. J., Clerbaux, C., Grimsdell, A. W., Meyer, C. I., Rößler, T., and Tournier, B.: Intercomparison of stratospheric gravity wave observations with AIRS and IASI, Atmos. Meas. Tech., 7, 4517–4537, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-7-4517-2014, 2014.
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Hoffmann, L., Spang, R., Orr, A., Alexander, M. J., Holt, L. A., and Stein, O.: A decadal satellite record of gravity wave activity in the lower stratosphere to study polar stratospheric cloud formation, Atmos. Chem. Phys., 17, 2901-2920, https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-17-2901-2017, 2017.
More detailed information for users of the AIRS Code Collection is provided in the user manual.
The AIRS Code Collection is distributed under the GNU GPL v3. Software libraries distributed along with this software package may have their own licenses and copyrights, please see corresponding documentation.
We are interested in sharing the AIRS Code Collection for research applications.
Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have any further questions:
Dr. Lars Hoffmann
Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich
e-mail: [email protected]