downloading from ftp

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 1:14 PM, eliav schmulewitz <eliavs at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi
> thank you
>  what i want is slp and geopotential  height at 500 mb
>

These are available with NASA's MERRA reanalysis. There several recipes
about MERRA in the cookbooks:

http://cookbooks.opengrads.org/index.php?title=Table_of_Contents#NASA.2FGSFC_MERRA

    Arlindo



> eliav
>
>
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> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 3:52 PM, Arlindo da Silva <
> arlindo.dasilva at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 9:24 AM, eliav schmulewitz <eliavs at gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>>> Hi
>>> does anybody know if grads can download from noaa ftp monthly data and
>>> how i can script it?
>>>
>>
>> GrADS does not do any ftp, you will need to transfer the files yourself,
>> ahead of time. On many operating system you can setup a FTP file system in
>> while you associate a local folder with a ftp address (Windows does by
>> default, on Mac OS X install MacFUSE, on Linux install FUSE.) A FTP file
>> system is not always to most efficient, but can be very convenient.
>>
>> Which NASA data in particular are you referring to? Some NASA data are
>> also available through opendap, making ftp transfer not necessary.
>>
>>    Arlindo
>>
>> --
>> Arlindo da Silva
>> dasilva at alum.mit.edu
>>
>
>


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Arlindo da Silva
dasilva at alum.mit.edu
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