This directory contains read software in IDL for the
SeaWinds Level 2A data distributed by the JPL PO.DAAC.

Each of these programs was tested on an SGI (IRIX 5.3) 
and a SUN (SunOS 5.6) running IDL 5.2.  If you encounter 
difficulty with these programs, please contact: 
sws@podaac.jpl.nasa.gov.

IDL Programs:
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IMPORTANT: 
Please note that before these programs will work correctly, the 
directory on your local system which contains the SeaWinds data 
must be input into the program.  (Search on "data_dir" to find this 
line quickly.)


read_sws2a.pro:    an IDL program to read a SeaWinds L2A data
                     in HDF format.

                     To run this program, use the following command:

                     IDL> read_sws2a

                     Sample output from this program are available in
                     file sample_output2a.

read_sws_info.pro: an IDL program to read the attribute 
                     information contained in the SeaWinds Level 1B, 
                     2A and 2B data files in HDF format.

                     To run this program, use the following command:

                     IDL> read_sws_info

                     Sample output from this program are available
                     in file sample_header2a.