Metsat: a MATLAB code to calculate, and visualize METOP B satellite data for global climatic monitoring

Global warming and Climatic changes in common are the most famous topics in the present days, to study the substantial size of this problem an advancement in the data collecting sensors and platform is taking place to increase the measurement’s density and frequency, this led to the generation of a huge amount of data. Data include Temperature, Pressure, and water vapor consider one of the foremost important parameters within the atmosphere. Accurate measurements of water vapor pressure within the troposphere are significant for understanding and precursor weather changes also it is important to follow the global warming progression. In this research, we tried generating a modest computer program that can handle this kind of data and represent a tool to help climatologist to deal with this data, the program read and collect separated data file, plot climatic daily variables, and calculates the average total precipitable water from Global Positioning satellite radio occultation. The program results are formed in 2D and 3D global figures that can visualize the measured atmospheric parameters, in addition to the calculation of the total precipitable water.