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Exercise 2: Plotting Saharan Albedo and reading binary data

Read Saharan albedo data from
~lecjm/public_html/Teaching/IDL_course/New_Course_v1/Data/modis_wsa_soil_bb3_cmg

and produce a colour contour plot with a map overlaid.

Hint: the data is binary and you need to read it into a fltarr that is 7200 by 3600 (look up readu). Data is on a 0.05 degree grid

What is the lat and lon of the maximum albedo?



John Marsham 2009-12-07