UCVMC How to process bin data

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Binary data can be generated from UCVMC's plotting tool in python or by one of the UCVMC app that is written to work with the UCVMC api.

Plot

This is horizontal Vs slice plot from UCVMC's plot_horizontal_slice.py

CS17.3, no GTL


metadata file

meta data contains many fields. Some of the fields are specific to the type of the plot that were made. This is a horizontal slice plot, therefore, it contains the following metadata

 lon_list
 lat_list
 lat1
 lon1
 lat2
 lon2
 datafile
 num_x
 num_y
 min
 max
 color
 data_type
 outfile
 cvm_selected
 datapoints
 depth

(lon1,lat1) is the lower left corner of the plot and (lon2,lat2) is the upper right corner of the plot. lon_list and lat_list are the ticks of the axis

metadata in json

bin data file

The binary data is written out as array of float32. It can be imported with numpy in python,

        import numpy as np
        fh = open(rawfile, 'r')
        floats = np.fromfile(fh, dtype=np.float32)

and fill into the 2D array as,

         datapoints = np.arange(num_x * num_y,dtype=np.float32).reshape(num_y, num_x)
         i=0
         j=0
         for f in floats:
            datapoints[i][j] = f
            j = j + 1
            if j >= num_x:
                j = 0
                i = i + 1


binary data


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