Running simulations through JPL Simulator and L2 pixel cloud processing

JPL Simulator (available to Science Team members upon request)

If you need more realistics and complex simulations (true heights, layover, etc...) we can produce Pixel cloud by using SLC simulator and L2 processor. We need as input a Gdem DEM with elevation and landtype. It is a netcdf file, an exemple is here : /work/ALT/swot/swotpub/SWOT_Simulator_data/input_data/po/gdem-dem-truth/gdem-dem-po-0.nc

The elevation and landtype arrays need to be 2D (latitude, longitude) and contain respectivly heights and landtype (water, land, etc.) for each pixel.

dimensions:
        latitude = 8405 ;
        longitude = 51746 ;
variables:
        double longitude(longitude) ;
                longitude:units = "degrees_east" ;
                longitude:_FillValue = -9990000000. ;
        double latitude(latitude) ;
                latitude:units = "degrees_north" ;
                latitude:_FillValue = -9990000000. ;
        byte landtype(latitude, longitude) ;
                landtype:_FillValue = -128b ;
        double elevation(latitude, longitude) ;
                elevation:units = "m" ;
                elevation:_FillValue = -9990000000. ;

// global attributes:
                :water_depth_reference_index = 1 ;
                :water_depth_reference_time = 2674357. ;
                :orbit_start_time = 874357 ;
                :orbit_end_time = 874366 ;

Then, we produce SLCs from JPL Simulator and pixel cloud from L2 pixel cloud simulator. The different results are stored on the cluster here : /work/ALT/swot/swotpub/SWOT_Simulator_data