E. Downloading Data
From SCOOP Wiki
- If you are not already there, go to the SCOOP Website
- Go to the Data page
- Search for the storm name Katrina in the year 2005
- Notice all 4 icons are now available
- Look through the 3 icons that have already been described
- Click on the wave icon which is the data link for this storm
E1. How many collections for this storm are found?
- Look at the list of collections
- By clicking on one of the collections, it will bring up the SCOOP Catalog Search Details Page which we already visited
- Go back to the list of collections
- Check the box next the collection named University of Florida CH3D01 Surge Model (CH3D only) Charlotte Harbor Output -forced by UFL Analytical Winds (about halfway down the page)
- Click the submit button at the bottom of the page
- This brings you to the SCOOP Data Availability Page which describes instructions to obtain data and the number and size of files
- Notice you could get data from either the LSU or TAMU archives
- Click on the icon with the blue arrow at the end of the line describing the time the files are available from Texas A&M University (TAMU)
- This will bring you to the list of the files available in that collection from the TAMU catalog
- Click on the icon with the blue arrow next to the third file named SCH3CH01-UFL_WANAFe06-UFL_20050823T1200_20050823T0600_20050828T1800_12gsr1_Z.nc.gz that will allow you to download the file
- The file size is 29.81 MiB, be sure your computer has enough room to continue with the downloading process
- Save the file where you will be able to access it again (you could create a file named SCOOP or SCOOP tutorial)
- Download anymore files that seem interesting to you and save them for later use
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