Abstract:
The Swath Prep operation for Giovanni-3 prepares swath data for use
in a Giovanni-3 workflow.
Input parameters: Geophysical variables in satellite swath format.
Output Description: Missing data added to workflow XML file.
Output Parameters: Same as input parameters
File Type: Input files are HDF4; no changes are made to the input HDF files. All
changes are in
... the workflow XML files.
Sub-definitions:
- Swath: 2- or 3-dimensional data structure, typically
representing an array of measurements distributed along the
scan lines of a satellite track.
- Pixel: individual data elements of the 2-dimensional swaths.
- Scan line: first data dimension in a 2-dimensional swath.
- Scan pixel: second dimension in a 2-dimensional swath.
- Vertical dimension: first dimension in a 3-dimensional swath, for
which the second and third dimensions are scan line and scan pixel.
Description of Operation:
- If any parameters listed in the input file groups are
lacking dimension information, the required information is
copied from the data description file for that dataset.
- If the geolocation parameters (listed in the data description file)
are not present in the input parameter list, they are added.
Algorithm Details
Caveats/Warnings:
Origin/Software:
Implemented in IDL.
User Options
Other information:
This document describes only the mathematical approach used in the computation. 
