ICESAT2 Track Analysis

• ICESAT2 Track Analysis
  • Installation for Developers
  • Command line interface
  • Sample workflow

Installation for Developers

Prerequisites:

• A POSIX-compatible system (Linux or macOS)
• Python 3.10 (run python --version to check that your version of python is correct)
• MPI (e.g. from brew install open-mpi on macOS)
• HDF5 (e.g. from brew install hdf5 on macOS)

[!IMPORTANT]
Windows is not supported for development work – use WSL on Windows hosts

Installation:

[!NOTE] For testing purposes this repository uses Git Large File Storage (LFS) to handle large data files. If you want to clone the repository with the LFS files, make sure you have Git LFS installed on your system. You can download it from here. After installing, you can clone the repository as usual with git clone. Git LFS files will be downloaded automatically. If you've already cloned the repository, you can download the LFS files with git lfs pull.

• Clone the repository:

  • Navigate to https://github.com/brown-ccv/icesat2waves
  • Click the "<> Code" button and select a method to clone the repository, then follow the prompts

• Open a shell (bash, zsh) in the repository working directory

• Create a new virtual environment named .venv:

  python -m venv .venv
  

• Activate the environment

  source ".venv/bin/activate"
  

• Upgrade pip

  pip install --upgrade pip
  

• Install or update the environment with the dependencies for this project:

  pip install --upgrade --editable ".[dev]"
  

  You may need to set the value of the HDF5_DIR environment variable to install some of the dependencies, especially when installing on macOS.

  For Apple Silicon (M-Series) CPUs:

  export HDF5_DIR="/opt/homebrew/opt/hdf5"
  pip install --upgrade --editable ".[dev]"
  

  For Intel CPUs:

  export HDF5_DIR="/usr/local/opt/hdf5"
  pip install --upgrade --editable ".[dev]"
  

• Check the module icesat2waves is available by loading the module:

  python -c "import icesat2waves; print(icesat2waves.__version__)"
  

Command line interface

The icesat2waves package comes with a command-line interface (CLI) that facilitates interaction with the package directly from your terminal. This can be particularly useful for scripting and automation. You can access the help documentation for the CLI by running the following command:

icesat2waves --help

As suggested in the help, to run a specific command run icesat2waves [OPTIONS] COMMAND [ARGS].... To view help on running a command, run icesat2waves COMMAND --help. For example, to get help about the load-file command, you may issue icesat2waves load-file --help to get the following output:

(.venv) $ icesat2waves load-file --help
Usage: icesat2waves load-file [OPTIONS]

  Open an ICEsat2 tbeam_stats.pyrack, apply filters and corrections, and
  output smoothed photon heights on a regular grid in an .nc file.

Options:
  --track-name TEXT         [required]
  --batch-key TEXT          [required]
  --id-flag / --no-id-flag  [default: id-flag]
  --output-dir TEXT         [required]
  --verbose / --no-verbose  [default: no-verbose]
  --help                    Show this message and exit.

Sample workflow

Below is a sample workflow that leverages the included CLI.

1. Load single file

icesat2waves load-file --track-name 20190502052058_05180312_005_01 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

2. Make spectra from downloaded data

icesat2waves make-spectra --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

3. Plot spectra

icesat2waves plot-spectra --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

4. Build IOWAGA priors

icesat2waves make-iowaga-threads-prior --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

5. Build angles

icesat2waves make-b04-angle --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

6. Define and plot angles

icesat2waves define-angle --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output

7. Make corrections and separations

icesat2waves correct-separate --track-name SH_20190502_05180312 --batch-key SH_testSLsinglefile2 --output-dir ./output