[gradsusr] Data download help

[James T. Potemra]

Emily:

The files in the URL below are served via ftp, so this is not really a 
GrADS issue.  Instead, you can use "wget" to retrieve all the files, 
then "ncrcat" to concatenate them all together.  For example,

wget -r -A.nc 
ftp://ftp.cdc.noaa.gov/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis.dailyavgs/surface/

will retrieve all the files on that page that end with ".nc".  Next,

ncrcat -h air.sig995.*.nc one_big_file.nc

will cat all the individual files into one big file.  "ncrcat" is part 
of the netCDF Operator (NCO) toolkit; more info at 
http://nco.sourceforge.net/

Jim

On 7/9/13 7:09 AM, Emily Wilson wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I am wanting to write a GrADS script in emacs that downloads a bunch 
> of NetCDF files from a website and compresses them into one large 
> file.  The website is
> http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/cgi-bin/db_search/DBListFiles.pl?did=33&tid=38147&vid=668 
> and I want to download all of the NetCDF files on this page. What 
> commands can I use to do this task?  If this is not possible would it 
> be possible to format a script so that from the webpage, each file is 
> read individually and specific data is pulled in each file, wrote or 
> saved to a master file then the same thing is done for the next file 
> and so on?
> Thanks for the help in advance,
> *
> Emily P. Wilson, Intern*
> Research and Conservation Department
> Denver Botanic Gardens
> 1007 York St.
> Denver, CO 80206
> 720-865-3593
>
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