NOAA-EMC / WW3-tools

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Closed ricampos closed 2 years ago

ricampos commented 2 years ago

Pull Request Summary

New simplified codes to download NOAA GEFS operational forecasts.

Description

There are 3 new scripts to download GEFS and GFS forecasts, that replaced the previous structure. get_gefsWaves.sh will download GEFS wave forecast, for the specific variables of interest. get_gefsAtmos.sh will download GEFS atmospheric forecast, for the specific variables of interest. get_gfsWaves.sh will download GFS wave forecast, for the specific variables of interest. they utilize two pearl codes, get_grib.pl and get_inv.pl, to be able to fetch only the specific variables of interest.

Issue(s) addressed

It has reduced the number of dependencies and complexity involved in the previous version. The 2 dependencies are now: wgrib2 and nco, only. The codes are shorter and easier to understand and customize.

Commit Message

New simplified codes to download NOAA GEFS operational forecasts.

Testing

The 3 new shell scripts were successfully tested on Orion and using my local laptop (ubuntu).