<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Marina,<br></div>I agree with Jonathan. A couple of UCAR services that might a) have the data of interest, and b) provide additional mechanisms to download are: <br><div><br>NCAR Research Data Archive - <a href="http://rda.ucar.edu/">http://rda.ucar.edu/</a> - think of this as the "reference library for atmospheric data". They have decent search/browse, but you might also just contact them directly with the question, and they could point you in the right direction.<br><br>Unidata - <a href="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/">http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/data/</a> - they provide data "feeds", including many from NOAA. Often these are real-time feeds, but they might have a mechanisms to set up a feed for past time periods. Again, they should have good support if you contact them. <br><br></div><div>Best,<br></div><div>Matt<br><br></div><div>Matthew Mayernik, Ph.D.<br></div><div>Project Scientist & Research Data Services Specialist<br></div><div>NCAR Library / UCAR Integrated Information Services<br></div><div>National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)<br></div><div>University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR)<br></div><div><a href="mailto:mayernik@ucar.edu">mayernik@ucar.edu</a><br></div><br><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jun 3, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Jonathan Petters <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jpetter1@jhu.edu" target="_blank">jpetter1@jhu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Marina,<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">In my previous life I was an atmospheric science researcher, and have downloaded a reanalysis dataset or two from UCAR sites….<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Without detailed context (e.g. which sites the researcher is trying to download from, which parameters they want), my general suggestion is that they contact the appropriate climate data manager. In many cases
there is one since climate data sets are widely re-used. Some atmospheric science data centers have data request forms, while others just e-mail service accounts.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Such a data manager, properly motivated, could likely retrieve the specific datasets your internal medicine researcher requests and make them available via an anonymous FTP site. If this support exists, I’d
make use of it!<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1f497d">Jonathan Petters, Ph.D.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Hi,<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I have a researcher in internal medicine looking for suggestions on how to download climate data from NOAA online tools more effectively. His research is about analysis of seasonality in infectious diseases with nationwide VA databases.
He has geocoded locations of ~130 hospitals in continental US, and is trying to get datasets of monthly mean climate data (especially temperature and humidity) from 2003 to 2013 for those locations. He checked several NOAA online tools, but could only find
a way to order one location at a time. <u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Does anyone have suggestions on climate data download? <u></u>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you!<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Best,<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Marina<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Qianjin (Marina) Zhang<u></u><u></u></p>
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