Modularized SIR-to-NetCDF Conversion Command-Line Tool

This innovation reads in a proprietary formatted binary data format known as Scatterometer Image Reconstruction (SIR), and converts these data files to netCDF-classic format. This software is provided as a command-line tool for Linux/UNIX-based systems, and includes built-in regression testing and command line options. The software is configured to output the netCDF files using a metadata conformance to Attribute Convention for Dataset Discovery (ACDD) and Climate and Forecasting (CF) version 1.6. This software is initially tested and designed for SIR files created for datasets originating from QuikSCAT and SeaWinds on ADEOS-II.