Thanks Alex. Cam had some good comments here. I think if you have the time/energy to maintain the code, drop it wherever you need -- we're using revision control so it's easy to move stuff around.
Cheers, Chris -----Original Message----- From: Alex Goodman <[email protected]> Reply-To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Friday, October 25, 2013 1:48 PM To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Subject: Fwd: ESGF Download Script for CMIP5 >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Note that the script itself is fairly crude and a bit out of date but it 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
