setting directory and model about pytmd

[tsutterley]

Ok, great to know! I'll figure it out tomorrow and will let you know when I have a fix.

[Mohammad-Mardini]

I'm running it since 5 mins, no errors! But it seems stuck at after printing INFO:__main__:ftp://ftp-access.aviso.altimetry.fr/auxiliary/tide_model/fes2014_elevations_and_load/fes2014b_elevations/ocean_tide.tar.xz -->

Is this normal?

[tsutterley]

Okay. I'm adding an option for upping the timeout in #205. You should be able to force it to just download by making it big enough.

[Mohammad-Mardini]

Thank you Tyler. It is working now. If you don't mind I will close this issue!

[tsutterley]

Glad we got everything sorted out! Let me know if you need anything :)

[tsutterley]

Hi @Mohammad-Mardini,
Yeah, looks like I was a little overambitious with the conversion to pathlib. Sorry about that! This is fixed in #203
Thanks for pointing it out!
Cheers,
Tyler

[Mohammad-Mardini]

Hi Tyler,

Thank you for help. The problem is solved now :) However, I'm having another error please see the attached screenshot. I think there is some gird/data missing! If this is the cause of the problem, could you please point me it. Thanks again for your time and efforts.

[tsutterley]

Hi @Mohammad-Mardini,
Glad the first set of errors got fixed!
So I'm not the producer of the tide constituents and am only licensed as an academic data user. The aviso_fes_tides.py script should be able to get the files you need to run with the FES models. You'll need to register with AVISO to get access. If you have any trouble let me know. I'll work on some documentation to highlight this (including a step-by-step guide for getting data for the different models).
I'll also reopen this issue in case you run into any problems (and to keep this issue in my head).
Cheers,
Tyler

[Mohammad-Mardini]

Hi @tsutterley,

Thank you for your prompt reply. Ok, I have registered to AVISO. Then I tried to run the aviso_fes_tides.py, using the credentials given by AVISO, by simply python aviso_fes_tides.py. Note, the script folder is under the main directory of pyTMD. But I got the a new error. Please see the attached screenshot.

Best regards,
Mohammad

[tsutterley]

Hey @Mohammad-Mardini,
I tried replicating this error on a few different machines (one linux and one mac) but couldn't seem to make things break. I'll keep trying. I'm wondering if there was an IO error during the transfer.

[Mohammad-Mardini]

Hi @tsutterley,

Thank you for your time and efforts. What do you suggest to check if the IO error indeed occurring during the data transfer?

-Mohammad

[tsutterley]

Try running the program again?

[tsutterley]

Normal as it's a 2GB tar file and transfer rates aren't great. It should (eventually) load that tar file into memory (never downloading it to disk), then write out the individual netCDF files for each FES model constituent to the output directory you entered.

[Mohammad-Mardini]

I see! 🤞🤞 for good news soon!

[Mohammad-Mardini]

Unfortunately, it broke with a timeout error message :(

[Mohammad-Mardini]

I don't know how naive my question is, but, can you upload the required data/files to a Google drive foe example?

[tsutterley]

Sure. Uploading here. https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LVMMtqHb5AIBOivDnbxe7NM4Hi22-fDo