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 checks the file downloaded by the script before. Installation
 * Download and unpack PanGet and move the programs wget and PanCheck to a directory in your path (on MacOS choose /Applications/Utilities (Programme/Dienstprogramme), on Windows choose C:\Windows).
 * 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. (Note: 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 HTML 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). On MacOS X start the terminal program (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal) and drop the shell script file onto the terminal window. Click into the terminal window and press return. On Windows you can start the shell script by doubleclicking the shell icon. 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.