Recipe Retrieve global data from HTTPS server
Back to G5NR Data Access Guide.
We want to access G5NR data by downloading files from the https server using either a web browser or the command line tool wget.
The base url for G5NR data is
https://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/
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 .
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
https://g5nr.nccs.nasa.gov/data/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.
The command line tool wget can be used to retrieve the same files. To download a file for a specific time, say 0900z, we can use
- File Spec: