Downloading from the ABRFC Archives

The following script was tested on both UNIX and Windows platforms running a standard installation of PERL. A couple of notes for configuring the script:

First, browse the archive and find the files you wish to download. (The sample script pretends you want all 1-hour precipitation images for March 8, 2001.)

Next, save and edit this script. To adapt for your usage, update the $local_dir variable and the list of files to download.

To download the script, cut and paste from the window below.

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#!/usr/bin/perl
use LWP::Simple;

#supply the local directory you want to store the files into
#note the use of / instead of /

$local_dir = "d:/myresearch/abrfc_data/2001_images/";

#specify the files you want to download
@images = (
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200100z.gif", # 00z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200101z.gif", # 01z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200102z.gif", # 02z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200103z.gif", # 03z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200104z.gif", # any comment
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200105z.gif", # can be
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200106z.gif", # here
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200107z.gif", # because I
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200108z.gif", # have the
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200109z.gif", # pound sign
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200110z.gif", # ......
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200111z.gif", # 11z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200112z.gif", # 12z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200113z.gif", # 13z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200114z.gif", # 14z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200115z.gif", # 15z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200116z.gif", # 16z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200117z.gif", # 17z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200118z.gif", # 18z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200119z.gif", # 19z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200120z.gif", # 20z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200121z.gif", # 21z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200122z.gif", # 22z
  "http://www.srh.noaa.gov/archive/abrfc/2001/mar/1hr_images/0308200123z.gif");
# last line can have a comment too, but notice the different ending

#do not change anything beyond this point
foreach $image_url (@images)
{
  print "$image_url n";
  @fields = split ///, $image_url;
  $image = @fields[-1];
  $image_path = $local_dir.$image;
  getstore($image_url, $image_path);
}

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