Using Ferret at PMEL

Contents:

  1. Setting up your account to run Ferret
  2. Setting up access to the gridded data base maintained by TMAP
  3. Accessing this data base with Ferret
  4. Ferret Users Guide


1. Setting up your account to run Ferret

2. Setting up access to the gridded data sets

  1. The gridded climatological and topographic data sets supported by TMAP are located on five publicly accessible disks. To access the data, the disks must be mounted on the Unix computer from which you run Ferret. These disks are permanently mounted on corona, zippy, and mambo.

    If you are using a different computer, please ask a CNSD consultant to mount the disks on your system (the disks are /home/shiva, /home/shiva2, /home/shiva3, /home/shiva4, /home/shiva5). The data sets are located in the /data directories of these disks.

  2. To inform Ferret of the data sets' location on these disks, execute the following command from the Unix shell prompt, or place the command in your .login file:

    • On Sun solaris computers:

      % source /opt/local/ferret/ferret_shiva_paths

    • On DEC OSF and Sun sunos computers:

      % source /usr/local/ferret/ferret_shiva_paths

3. Accessing the climatological data base with Ferret

4. Ferret Users Guide


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