Hi Chris and OCW devs, I'll work on cleaning up the code for the download script a bit before adding it to the repository, but I have a quick question: Is there any preferred location where I should put it?
Thanks, Alex ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Mattmann, Chris A (398J) <[email protected]> Date: Sat, Oct 19, 2013 at 12:31 PM Subject: Re: ESGF Download Script for CMIP5 To: Alex Goodman <[email protected]>, rcmes-dev < [email protected]> Thanks Alex. It would be good to contribute this to Apache Open Climate Workbench -- you have SVN read/write and the karma and good will -- go for it dude! ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Chris Mattmann, Ph.D. Senior Computer Scientist NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena, CA 91109 USA Office: 171-266B, Mailstop: 171-246 Email: [email protected] WWW: http://sunset.usc.edu/~mattmann/ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Adjunct Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089 USA ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ -----Original Message----- From: Alex Goodman <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:39 AM To: rcmes-dev <[email protected]> Subject: ESGF Download Script for CMIP5 >Hi all, > > >Kyo told me that there is some interest in one of my old download scripts >for CMIP5 data, so I have attached it here. To run it, you will need your >OpenID and password for your ESGF account as well as myproxyclient >installed (pip > install MyProxyClient). > > >Note that the script itself is fairly crude and a bit out of date but it >still gets the job done (it simply generates a query to obtain an XML >file containing search results based on user entered > parameters, then downloads each of the requested datasets individually >via the wget and screen commands). I am sure that someone on the dev team >could implement a more elegant method and ultimately improve this script. >If you do, please let me know because > I use this script too! > > >Also, let me know if you have additional questions about it. I wrote many >comments in the file so setting the usage parameters should be >self-explanatory if you have ever manually downloaded anything > from PCMDI before. > > >Thanks, >Alex >-- >Alex Goodman >Graduate Research Assistant >Department of Atmospheric Science >Colorado State University > > > -- Alex Goodman Graduate Research Assistant Department of Atmospheric Science Colorado State University
