PanGet

PanGet creates a shell script to download an individual collection of datasets from PANGAEA. The script uses the programs wget and PanGet. The program wget downloads a dataset specified by its PANGAEA dataset ID. Between two calls of wget the program PanCheck stops the progress for 2 seconds and checks the file downloaded by the script before. Installation
 * Download and unpack PanGet and move the programs wget and PanCheck to /Applications/Utilities (Programme/Dienstprogramme).
 * Create a list of dataset IDs to be downloaded following case a), b) or c)
 * a) datasets are available in a sequence of IDs; start PanGet and set the IDs. After clicking  PanGet asks for the name of the shell script. PanGet creates the script and deletes all entries in the dialog.
 * b) create a list of IDs with the 4D client:
 * open the dataset table and configure the datset ID in the first column and the “Export filename” in the second one
 * search for the dataset selection you want with the search tab
 * save the resulting list as a text file. (!4D can download a list with max. 30,000 data sets!).
 * c) create a list of IDs with PangaVista:
 * define a query which provides those data sets needed
 * change ...?count=xxx&... in the query-URL to xxx=number of datasets found. All hits will be listed on one html-page.
 * Save the page as text file.

Start the program PanGet and open the file you created before. Click the OK button and set the name of the shell script (e.g. C:\NECLIME\neclime). Now you can close PanGet, start a terminal and navigate to the directory where you stored the shell script file. Start the script by typing “./name of the shell script file” (e.g. ./neclime). The shell script downloads all datasets specified by PanGet. This may take some time depending on the number and size of datasets. A collection of files may be converted to an other format, e.g. Ocean Data View using Pan2Applic.