WRITE RSL/TRMM RADAR TO HDF5

(C) Copyleft SIMEPAR - Sistema Meteorologico do Parana. See LICENSE.txt for more details

In this folder you will find a code in C to write a RSL/TRMM radar structure into an HDF5 file according to the GAMIC convention

DEPENDENCIES

In order to compile this programs you will need, already installed:

• a C compiler, preferentially GCC
• RSL/TRMM version 1.41 or later: http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/
• HDF5 C library version 1.8 or later: http://www.hdfgroup.org/HDF5/release/obtain5.html#obtain

BUILDING

Download the files in this folder to your machine.

You may use this code directly in our application or create a dynamic library as follows:

First of all, sometimes RSL does not install itself in standard locations. if this is your case, update the first line of MAKEFILE to the installation location of RSL

In a terminal at the downloaded folder execute make. This will create dynamic library librsl_to_hdf5gamic.so. Move this file to the standard library location of your system as well as the file rsl_to_hdf5gamic.h, or link directly to it when compiling your application.

USING

When writing your own application include the header

#include <rsl_to_hdf5gamic.h>

and call

radar_to_hdf5gamic(Radar* radar, char *outfile)

to write an HDF5 file

When compiling your application:

• If you have the dynamic library, link with the flag -lrsl_to_hdf5gamic. You must also link RSL and HDF5 with -lrsl -lhdf5

• If want to use the pure code add the file rsl_to_hdf5gamic.c in your compilation line and link to RSL and HDF5 with -lrsl -lhdf5