This repository contains code to generate various visualisations of the CCI SST dataset. The majority are one-shot programs which will require editing and running in a development environment to generate visualisations. The two main visualisations are of latitude-dependent sea-surface temperature, in equirectangular and polar projections, and are designed to be run standalone.
This will generate the frames for an animation of SST + sea ice fraction using a latitude-dependent colour scale, using an equirectangular projection (EPSG:4326).
This is defined as the main program in the released JAR file. Therefore running it is very straightforward:
java -jar cci-sst-visualisation.jar
Note that you may also want the -Xmx option to increase the maximum available memory for the Java Virtual Machine. It is recommended to make at least 4GB of memory available:
java -Xmx4G -jar cci-sst-visualisation.jar
To configure how this behaves, a file named sst_render.properties should be present in the directory from which the command is being run. This contains all required information for locating the data, and setting the available options for the output. An fully-commented example file can be found here, and is also available to download alongside the release.
This will generate the frames for an animation of SST + sea ice fraction using a latitude-dependent colour scale, using polar stereographic projections (EPSG:3408 and EPSG:3409).
The main program for this visualisation is defined in the class uk.ac.rdg.resc.SSTRenderPolar, and can hence be run from the JAR file using:
java -Xmx4G -cp cci-sst-visualisation.jar uk.ac.rdg.resc.SSTRenderPolar
It behaves almost identically to the equirectangular version, using a file named sst_render_polar.properties, a fully-commented example of which can be found here, or alongside the release download.