GLOBAL GEO COMPOSITE CREATOR

These scripts produce global geostationary composite imagery from Himawari-8, GOES-16, GOES-18, Meteosat-9 and Meteosat-10.

Setup

The global geo composite creator requires a python virtual environment, which holds all necessary libraries. It also requires the xRITDecompress binary from EUMETSAT to read in the SEVIRI dataset. These are done, when running: bash config.sh

Then navigate into the EUMETSAT repo, e.g.: cd /home/users/$USER/bin/PublicDecompWT/xRITDecompress

Edit the Makefile: line 6: DEST_DIR=/home/users/$(USER) line 20-21: comment out

Run to compile the xRITDecompress binary (we will need this path in the ./run_geo script): make

Running the proccesing

Note:

• Make sure the name of the virtual python environment is the same in both the config and run_geo script (but can be named anything)
• Make sure the path given for the xRITCompress binary in run_geo is the same as in the Makefile (line 24)

To run the global_geo processing in NRT, edit the directories as needed and run: bash batch_scheduling.sh

By default, the script will process the most recent suitable timeslot (hourly, due to SEVIRI license restrictions imposed on the RSG group).

To fill in missing data from yesterday, edit the directories as needed and run: bash fill_in_yesterday.sh /path/to/cesium/images/

To process older data, instead specify the desired timeslot by running: bash fill_in_any_hour.sh YYYYMMDDHHMM or bash fill_in_any_day.sh /path/to/cesium/images/ YYYYMMDD