Infrared Global Geostationary Composite Quick View

Open the Python environment installed on your computer and make sure the required Python package outlined in the “How to Use” section is installed.

Open the Python script downloaded from the GHRC Github within your Python environment.

Navigate to the folder on your computer where you have saved the Infrared Global Geostationary Composite AREA McIDAS file. From the address bar, copy the file path as shown below:

Paste the file path within the quotation marks for the variable “globir” highlighted in grey below. For Python, the backslashes need to be changed to forward slashes. At the end of the file path after the last forward slash, add the filename of the Infrared Global Geostationary Composite file as shown.

For this data recipe, documentation is provided in the Python code to outline what each section performs. The code first extracts the data’s header and navigation information and array size, then proceeds to extract the data parameter in the AREA McIDAS file needed to create the PNG file image. Using this information the code proceeds to construct a one-dimensional array and then sets up and reshapes it into a two-dimensional array for plotting.  Finally, the code uses the matplotlib module to plot the two-dimensional array and save it as a PNG file to the same folder where the code is located on your computer. 

Double-click on the PNG file to view the Global IR composite image.