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Re: [python-users] Python/Siphon for ESGF/CMIP5 OPeNDAP access?

  • To: Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [python-users] Python/Siphon for ESGF/CMIP5 OPeNDAP access?
  • From: "Signell, Richard" <rsignell@xxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:53:56 -0400
You might also peruse the list of downscaled climate model data on the
USGS CIDA TDS also:
http://cida.usgs.gov/thredds/catalog.html
That one is not protected.

On Tue, Jun 28, 2016 at 10:07 AM, Sean Arms <sarms@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Pete,
>
> This is something Siphon should be able to do, as ESGF is running a TDS, but
> there would likely need to be some additions to the code base to allow for
> authentication. I think ESGF will allow you to download an access token that
> you can pass with a data requests to do the authentication...I think...If
> that's the case, then we should add a feature request to Siphon to allow it
> to use an authentication token. Any way to ping the grad student (I know you
> message is a bit old) to see if they provide a token?
>
> Cheers!
>
> Sean
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 2:24 PM, Pete Pokrandt <poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>>
>> I have a grad student here who would like to use OPeNDAP to pull data (one
>> grid point for lots of times I think) from the ESGF CMIP5 data project.  He
>> can get in through their web interface, but he's got lots of times he wants
>> to get, and was hoping to script something that would log in using his
>> openid and pw, and then just loop through all the times one URL at a time.
>>
>>
>> I've never pulled CMIP5 data from ESGF, but it sounds like they are pretty
>> protective of their data and it is not trivial/obvious to get at the data.
>>
>>
>> Is this something that siphon or pydap or something can do? If not
>> currently, is this something that would be useful to the community and that
>> Ryan/Sean/whoever might be willing to work with us on?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Pete
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Pete Pokrandt - Systems Programmer
>> UW-Madison Dept of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
>> 608-262-3086  - poker@xxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>>
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