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Sentinel 3 Snow Products - GEUS
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Update SICEv1.0 #21

Closed BaptisteVandecrux closed 4 years ago

BaptisteVandecrux commented 4 years ago

On the optimization, the major updates are:

The new script is now between 1.25 and 5 times faster.

Note that the slow part of the script is when solving for dark pixels. Applying a land/ocean mask at the scene level would speed up even more the script. At the moment land/ocean masking is done in dm.sh after sice.py was run. Once the cloud mask comes from idepix, we can run sice 1x/day rather than 1x/scene (see #19).

On the equations that are being used, the major update is that the BBA calculation for polluted snow now uses the BOA reflectance instead of the TOA reflectance as in the previous version. Alex updated that in the fortran code in December. Expect different performance at the PROMICE stations.

mankoff commented 4 years ago

I'm not sure why there are such large changes involved in this, but I'm going to merge it.