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Global warming and Climatic changes in common are the most famous topics in the present days, to study the substantial size of this problem an advancement in the data collecting sensors and platform is taking place to increase the measurement’s density and frequency, this led to the generation of a huge amount of data. Data include Temperature, Pressure, and water vapor consider one of the foremost important parameters within the atmosphere. Accurate measurements of water vapor pressure within the troposphere are significant for understanding and precursor weather changes also it is important to follow the global warming progression. In this research, we tried generating a modest computer program that can handle this kind of data and represent a tool to help climatologist to deal with this data, the program read and collect separated data file, plot climatic daily variables, and calculates the average total precipitable water from Global Positioning satellite radio occultation. The program results are formed in 2D and 3D global figures that can visualize the measured atmospheric parameters, in addition to the calculation of the total precipitable water.
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The description of all generated function and what they do in the program.
Read_Variables: in this step, we will be prompted to select the folder that contains all day’s data files to sort and collect single day climatic Parameters, the code will save the sorted data from all NC files into text file starting with the word “Data”,
Read_Calc_TPW: in this step, we will be prompted to select the folder that contains all day’s data files (the same folder as in the previous step), the total precipitable water (TPW) will be calculated and saved in a separate text file starting with the word “TPW”.
Profiles: This code will plot all the vertical profiles measured in the selected day.
gene_Parameters: in order to generate the parameters to plot the 2D and 3D figures for each day separately, we will be prompted to select the file starting by the world “data” generated in the first step.
TPW_Parameters: in this part will be prompted to select the file starting by the world “TPW” generated in the second step, to generate mesh and grids needed for 2D plots in the next step.
TPW_2D_Plot_: This Code will generate a 2D plot of the daily TPW generated in the previous step
ANU_AVG_TPW_Plot: this code will plot the annual average TPW global map, in addition to some statistics about the daily variation, also this code can run for all the subfolder in the main directory, so that mean if we put a month it will plot the average monthly TPW, and so on
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Al Deep, M. Metsat: a MATLAB code to calculate, and visualize METOP B satellite data for global climatic monitoring. Earth Sci Inform 14, 2423–2431 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12145-021-00686-3
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