cdx.datawrappers 0.0.1

CDX Data Wrappers

Contents

• Installation

  • Quick Instructions

  • Full Instructions

    • Executables

    • Installing EasyInstall

    • Installing Without EasyInstall

  • Issues and Questions

• Changelog

  • 0.0.1 - Current Version

  • 0.0.0 - Initial

CDX DataWrappers provides an API into the CDX data systems that enables subsetting and spatial and temporal access to date made available from CDX. CDX is the Climate Data Exchange, an effort of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory to create a virtual environment for the sharing of climate data.

Installation

This document tells you how to install cdx-datawrappers.

Quick Instructions

As a user with administrative privileges, run:

easy_install cdx-datawrappers

That’s it.

Full Instructions

cdx-datawrappers requires the Python programming language. We recommend version 2.4 or later. As of this writing, 2.6 is the latest stable version. If Python is not yet installed on your system, you can find binary and and source distributions from the Python website.

To test if a correct version of Python is available on your system, run:

python -V

You should see output similar to:

Python 2.6

indicating the version of Python installed.

By far the easiest, recommended, and encouraged way to install cdx-datawrappers is to use EasyInstall. If your Python installation has EasyInstall available to it, then this one command is all you need to run in order to download, build, install, and generate command-line tools all in one go for all users on your system:

easy_install cdx-datawrappers

Be sure to run that command as an administrative user. For example, on Mac OS X and other Unix systems, you might need to run:

sudo easy_install cdx-datawrappers

That will also download and install all dependencies, including Setuptools.

Executables

Installing EasyInstall

If you happen to be on a system where your Python installation lacks easy install, fret not. Upgrading your system to gain EasyInstall’s abilities is quite simple. Follow these instructions:

1. Download http://peak.telecommunity.com/dist/ez_setup.py

2. As an administrative user, run the freshly-downloaded ez_setup.py file using your system’s Python.

EasyInstall and its necessary libraries will be downloaded, built, and installed for you, and the easy_install executable generated. The location of the easy_install executable is as described above.

Installing Without EasyInstall

If EasyInstall is not available on your system, you can still make a proper installation of cdx-client. Follow these instructions:

1. Download the cdx-datawrappers source distribution from http://cdx.jpl.nasa.gov/software/dist/cdx-datawrappers/cdx-datawrappers-0.0.0.tgz Substitute version numbers as appropriate.

2. Unpack each archive.

3. Change the current working directory to each newly-created subdirectory, cdx.datawrappers-0.0.0, again substituting version numbers as appropriate.

4. As an administrative user, run: python setup.py install in each subdirectory.

Issues and Questions

To report any problems with or ask for help about cdx-datawrappers, visit our contact web page.

Changelog

0.0.1 - Current Version

This release includes its own specially modified version of PyDAP to work around some outstanding issues in that library.

0.0.0 - Initial

This is an initial release of cdx-datawrappers providing local data access to MISR, MLS AIRS and NCAR’s Community Climate Simulation Model (CCSM) output netCDF data, and remote access to MLS, AIRS and CCSM data.