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SAMPy

Python implementation of the SAMOSA+ retracker developed within ESA Cryo-TEMPO project

Folder structure

The repository contains 3 folders:

• Data
  Folder containing the L1b CS granules to process
  The subfolder structure within the folder should be (i.e. for the GOP product):
  GOP\YYYY\MM\*.nc
• Processed
  Folder containing the output netcdf with the SAMOSA+ retracked variables
  (the subfolder structure is analogous to that in Data)
• Scripts
  Folder containing the python implementation of the SAMOSA+ retracker and the script to launch it

How to use it

To launch the SAMOSA+ retracker on a given L1b granule (i.e. CS_OFFL_SIR_GOPR1B_20200815T110723_20200815T111407_C001.nc) simply run

python launch_sampy_cs2_gop.py --file CS_OFFL_SIR_GOPR1B_20200815T110723_20200815T111407_C001.nc

The code has been tested so far on GOP granules. It is possible that some of the names of the variables used by SAMPy might be modified for the ICE products.

General info

• SAMPy makes use of xarray to read and save netcdf files.
• For the development of the repository I propose to follow the Gitflow workflow described here
  (comments/altrnatives to this are more than welcomed)