cdb_query documentation

Contents:

• Introduction
• Installation instructions
  • Core requirements
  • Installing this package: cdb_query
  • Obtaining ESGF credentials
  • Secondary tools used in the recipes
    • netCDF Operators (NCO)
    • Climate Data Operators (CDO)
• Recipes
  • 1. Retrieving surface temperature for ONDJF (CMIP5)
    • Discovering the data
    • Querying the discovered data
    • Validating the set of simulations
    • Retrieving the data: wget
    • Retrieving the data: OPeNDAP
    • BASH script
  • 2. Speeding things up
    • Asynchronous discovery
    • Asynchronous downloads
  • 3. Retrieving precipitation for JJAS over France (CORDEX)
    • Specifying the discovery
    • Discovering the data
    • Querying the discovered data
    • Validating the simulations
    • Retrieving the data: wget
    • Retrieving the data: OPeNDAP
    • Subsetting the data BEFORE the OPENDAP retrieval
    • BASH script
  • 4. Operator chaining
    • CMIP5
    • CORDEX
  • 5. Remap MAM precipitation and temperature to US (CMIP5)
    • Discovery and analyzing a sample
    • Scaling up to the whole dataset
  • 6. Retrieving DJF monthly atmospheric data over a latitude band (CMIP5)
• BASH script to compile and install NCO on CentOS