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<font face="Times New Roman">Dear all,<br>
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I hope that the following two items can be implemented soon:<br>
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1. Users should be able to ask ESG to display only datasets they
have permission to download:<br>
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Without this, a "CMIP5 commercial" user will have to subselect
(point and click on!) only the models they are allowed to
download, and they will have to consult an external table to
figure out which tables those are. If they don't do this, when
they go to download the files they will be asked if they want to
join the "CMIP5 research" group, and I don't want them to do this
if they are going to use the data for commercial purposes.
We're asking a lot of users to expect them to jump through lots of
hoops to honor the "terms of use".<br>
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Similarly lots of CMIP5 data is already published (and visible via
ESG), but hasn't been released for download. Users who want to
download CMIP5 data will have to eliminate one by one all the
models that are not yet public before downloading, and it is not
obvious which models those are. This is a pain.<br>
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2. </font><font face="Times New Roman">I noticed that the
institute information is lost when a gateway harvests datasets
from another gateway (at least it doesn't appear in the "Search
Categories"). If you look at the institutes listed at BADC, you
find MOHC, but the same datasets listed at PCMDI or NASA JPL don't
include the institute information under "Search Categories". <br>
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<font face="Times New Roman">Best regards,<br>
Karl<br>
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