ccplot is an open source command-line application for producing two-dimensinal plots of profile, layer and earth view data from CloudSat, CALIPSO and Aqua satellites.

The project is hosted at ccplot.org.

The installation instructions below are general instructions for Linux distributions. For more detailed instructions and other operating systems please see ccplot.org/download.

Requirements:

• Python 3
• Cython
• HDF4
• HDF-EOS2

Install the above from a Linux distribution package repositories. Python 3 and Cython are also included with Anaconda.

Python packages:

• numpy
• matplotlib
• cartopy
• packaging
• pytz

The Python packages are installed automatically by pip together with ccplot:

# To install from a local directory:
pipx install .
# To install from PyPI:
pipx install ccplot

See the man page ccplot(1) for information about usage, or visit ccplot.org.

This program can be freely distributed and modified under the terms of the 2-clause BSD license. You can find the full text in the file LICENSE.

A number of people have helped to make ccplot better. Special thanks to:

• Ryan Scott for helping to port ccplot to Mac OS X.
• Many others for reporting bugs.