<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div apple-content-edited="true">Dear Colleagues, </div><div apple-content-edited="true">I have been searching for a way to automate the CMIP5 download process -- as many have previously noted, the current gateway interface is fine for testing and poking, but for high-volume downloading it scales to impossible amounts of time and effort. I was encouraged by the Gateway 2.0 beta site at NCAR: </div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <a href="http://search-esg.prototype.ucar.edu">http://search-esg.prototype.ucar.edu</a></div><div apple-content-edited="true">This quickly gives me what looks like a single wget script to grab all models and ensembles for a specified experiment/realm/frequency/variable. Excellent! </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Q1: Will the version 2.0 wget scripts be using certificates so they don't expire? </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">Q2: When is the version 2.0 gateway going to become operational? </div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true">There's no point in wasting time with the current Gateway if the new one is around the corner.</div><div apple-content-edited="true">Jennifer</div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>--</div><div>Jennifer M. Adams</div><div>IGES/COLA</div><div>4041 Powder Mill Road, Suite 302</div><div>Calverton, MD 20705</div><div><a href="mailto:jma@cola.iges.org">jma@cola.iges.org</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span></span></span></div></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div apple-content-edited="true"><br></div><div><br></div></body></html>