Solved a bug so that the output can be written to the folder now. Add…

…ed a line which enabled Cartopy to download the Natural Earth images from inside the Docker container. Create a file with environment variables for the easier use of them inside the Docker container.

oco_vistool.py

@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@
 
 from matplotlib import patheffects
 from owslib.wmts import WebMapTileService
+import cartopy
+cartopy.config["downloaders"][("shapefiles", "natural_earth")].url_template = (
+      "https://naturalearth.s3.amazonaws.com/{resolution}_{category}/ne_{resolution}_{name}.zip")
 import cartopy.crs as ccrs
 import cartopy.feature as cfeature
 import shapefile
@@ -1473,6 +1476,8 @@ def do_overlay_plot(
 
     # construct filenames for the plot and optional h5 output file.
     out_plot_fullpath = os.path.join(cfg_d['out_plot_dir'], out_plot_name)
+    if not os.path.isdir(os.path.dirname(out_plot_fullpath)):
+        os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(out_plot_fullpath))
     out_data_fullpath = os.path.join(cfg_d['out_data_dir'], out_data_name)
     out_background_fullpath = os.path.join(cfg_d['out_plot_dir'], out_background_name)
 

oco_vistool_config.json

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-
 {
 	"date": "2016-07-27",
 	"geo_upper_left": [41.5, -78.5],
@@ -20,8 +19,8 @@
 	},
 	"ground_site": [40.7934, -77.86],
 	"city_labels": "", 
-	"out_plot_dir": "",
+	"out_plot_dir": "./out",
 	"out_plot_name": "",
-	"out_data_dir": "",
+	"out_data_dir": "./out",
 	"out_data_name": ""
-}
+}

vars.env

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+HDF5_USE_FILE_LOCKING=FALSE
+OMP_NUM_THREADS=1
+DASK_NUM_WORKERS=1
+PYTROLL_CHUNK_SIZE=512