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Can you show me how to read TRMM 3B42 or 3B43 data in Matlab?

April 26, 2017Data MATLAB read trmm

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Can you show me how to read TRMM 3B42 or 3B43 data in Matlab?

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Here are codes to read TRMM 3B42 binary files and TRMM 3B42 or 3B43 HDF files. — % This program is to read a TRMM 3B42 daily binary file fid = fopen(‘3B42_daily.2009.05.31.6.bin’, ‘r’); a = fread(fid, ‘float’,’b’); fclose(fid) data = a’; count = 1; for i_lat = 1:400 for j_lon = 1:1440 lat = -49.875 + 0.25*(i_lat – 1) lon = -179.875 + 0.25*(j_lon – 1) daily_rain_total = data(count) count = count + 1; end end — % This sample program is to read TRMM L3 HDF4 data precipitation = hdfread(‘3B43.090101.6A.HDF’, ‘/DATA_GRANULE/PlanetaryGrid/precipitation’); count = 1; for i_lon = 1:1440 for j_lat = 1:400 lat = -49.875 + 0.25*(j_lat – 1) lon = -179.875 + 0.