Aims of the tutorial.

1. In this tutorial we will take you through the process of compiling and installing the GEO software.
2. We will explain how to process a test data set and explain the basic functionality of the package.
3. We will supply you with some raw data from EUMETCast and familiarise you with the xRITDecompress programme.
4. Finally you will take your successfully generated netcdf files and work through some basic python plotting routines to visualise your data.

For the original tutorial delivered at as part of the SWIFT Science Meeting at KNUST in Ghana (Summer 2019) we provided each group with a laptop installed with a clean copy of Centos 7 Linux. For simplicity for the rest of the tutorial we will assume that installation of NWCSAF software will be completed on a similar system. NWCSAF-GEO will also run on Ubuntu and the following installation guide should provide a good starting point. However, the details of installation on and Ubuntu system is not covered in this tutorial.

This tutorial is focused on the 2018 version of the NWECSAF-GEO software.

There is extensive documentation about this software on the NWCSAF website, but we hope this tutorial will be a good introduction to the software and provide you with enough information to get up and running.