NOAA ESRL GMD Radiation

[donbright]

• Agency: National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

• Agency Division: Oceanic and Atmospheric Research (OAR)

• Agency Subdivision: Earth System Research Laboratory (ESRL)

• Agency Sub-Subdivision: Global Monitoring Division (GMD)

• Bulk Download Link: ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/data/radiation/

• Size Estimate: 196G

• Data Type: "G-Rad is involved in observational and theoretical research of the Earth's surface and atmospheric radiation budgets. The group specializes in the investigation of climatically significant variations in long-term radiation and meteorological measurements made at diverse globally-remote sites and continental US sites (SURFRAD)." - GMD Radiation website

• Related Issues: This issue is a split of issue #275

[StephWo]

Downloading to offline-mirror for now

[maryannet]

This should be checked often. New data is being added daily

[JeremiahCurtis]

running visual wget now, on ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/data/radiation/other/

[StephWo]

This transfers in glacial terms of speed. got almost 4 GB in 6 days :/ . Might be due to trans-atlantic lag

Does anyone have a copy already?

[jradzuweit]

tp@sirius:~/mirrors> lftp -c "open ftp://aftp.cmdl.noaa.gov/data/radiation/ && du -h -d1" 37M ./antuv
1.4G ./baseline
1.2G ./CUCF
0 ./instaar
du: Access failed: 550 Failed to change directory.
8.1M ./NCDC
48G ./neubrew
5.3G ./other
145M ./shiprad
141G ./surfrad
0 ./uid_shadow_drive
197G .

Creating mirror at ftp://176.9.40.3/mirror_b, as soon as it is finished I will post an update here.

[jradzuweit]

Server seems to be reducing transmission speed

[donbright]

crisis has passed.