TOVS Path-P IDL Tools Tutorial

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Introduction  |   Getting Started  |   Tutorial:  1  2  3  4  |   Example:  1  2  3  4  |   Extended Help

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Tutorial

If you have not already set up your copy of IDL to run the TOVS Path-P IDL tools, please follow the directions in the Getting Started section before attempting the tutorial.

This tutorial assumes that you are familiar with the IDL command line and array and structure terminology. The first step you need to take is to set the working directory to the root or base data directory. To do this, use the IDL cd procedure by typing the following at the IDL command prompt:

IDL> cd, 'mydir/tovs'

Where mydir is the full or relative pathname of the base directory where your TOVS Path-P data resides.

The tutorial is broken into four general categories of routines. We recommend that the user proceed chronologically as follows:

1. Displaying general information and statistics about the data files
2. Color displays
3. Plots
4. Extracting, saving, and retrieving 3-D time-series