Recipe: Retrieve (global) data from HTTPS server

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Problem

We want to access G5NR data by downloading files from the http server using either a web browser or the command line tool wget.

Solution

The base url for G5NR data is 

http://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/Ganymed/7km/c1440_NR/

At this location, the data is organized by resolution (0.5000_deg/0.0625_deg), type (const/inst/tavg/tdav), collection name, year, month and day as follows: 

DATA
|---resolution
|   |---type
|   |   |---collection
|   |   |   |---year
|   |   |   |   |---month
|   |   |   |   |   |---day

For a discussion about the available resolutions, types and collections, please see File:G5NR-Ganymed-7km FileSpec-ON6-V1.0.pdf.

Download using a web browser

A web browser can be used to browse directories, read and retrieve files. To retrieve the collection inst01hr_3d_T_Cv for the day 2006-09-18, one needs to point to 

http://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/Ganymed/7km/c1440_NR/DATA/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv/Y2006/M09/D18.

At this location, a file may be downloaded by simply clicking on the file name.

Download file(s) using the command line tool wget

The command line tool wget can be used to retrieve the same files as 

wget http://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/Ganymed/7km/c1440_NR/DATA/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv/Y2006/M09/D18/*

The * at the end would retrieve all (24) files for the given day.

To download a file for a specific time, say 0900z, we can use 

wget http://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/Ganymed/7km/c1440_NR/DATA/0.5000_deg/inst/inst01hr_3d_T_Cv/Y2006/M09/D18/c1440_NR.inst01hr_3d_T_Cv.20060918_0900z.nc4

Discussion

See Also

  1. File Spec: File:G5NR-Ganymed-7km FileSpec-ON6-V1.0.pdf

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