Hi GEONETCasters!

Let’s put into practice what we have learned in the programming tutorials from the Blog! The animations below showing Hurricane Aletta were developed using Python and the NetCDF’s received through GNC-A (VIIRS and ABI).

Now that’s a nice resolution! These NetCDF’s are received in the JPSS/BANDS/I5 folder:

You may use the script from this tutorial to make these plots:

• Optimized Python Script for JPSS Bands

Now let’s see an animation with the GOES-16 ABI, made with the NetCDF’s received in the GOES-R-CMI-Imagery/Band13 GNC-A folder:

You may use the script from this tutorial to make these plots:

• Part IX: Full Resolution Plots and Removing Image Borders

And you may automate the image generation process with the suggestion from the following tutorial:

• Part X: How to automate the generation of products

We may also overlay model data with the GOES-16 image, like the Mean Sea Level Pressure example below:

The GFS global model fields (GRIB2), may be found inside the ISCS-GRIB2 GNC-A folder:

In GNC-A, for each model field, we have 4 runs a day (00:00, 06:00, 12:00 and 18:00), from 0 to 240 hour ahead.

You may see how to manipulate these GFS files in the following tutorials:

• Python and GFS Part I: Reading GRIB2 files and making a basic plot
• Python and GFS Part II: Selecting a region to visualize and creating contour