Installing the CDB

Prerequisite

•  CDO 1.54 or above
•  NCO 4.0.0 or above
• Python 2.7 or above
•  GNU parallel version 20111122 or above

Setting up the environment

• One must create a BASH header file. For example, on CICLAD, the following works well:

  # cdb_header.sh
  # PROGRAMS:
  #
  export CDB_CDO_PATH="/home/$USER/local/cdo/bin"
  export CDB_NCO_PATH="/home/$USER/local/nco/bin"
  export CDB_PYTHON_PATH="/home/$USER/local/bin"
  #
  # DIRECTORIES:
  #
  export CDB_DIAG_DIR="/home/$USER/CDB/diags"
  export CDB_SCRIPT_DIR="/home/$USER/CDB/scripts"
  export CDB_SOURCE_DIR="/home/$USER/CDB/driver"
  export CDB_IN_DIR="/home/$USER/CDB/in"
  
  export CDB_OUT_DIR="/data/$USER/CDB/out"
  export CDB_TEMP_DIR="/data/$USER/CDB/temp/$USER"
  export CDB_DATA_DIR="/prodigfs/esg/CMIP5/merge"