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Working on the servers of the ESCER Centre

Our computer infrastructure

Have a look at our computer infrastructure: Computer infrastructure of the ESCER Centre

Firewall

To protect our servers and data we have a firewall installed around all of them. To get inside this firewall you need to either:

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Full description of the tools below and other tools can also be found on the following page:  RPN standard filesformat

Having a first glance at the GEM model output

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For more information about 'voir' check here:   voir - documentation

xrec → visualize fields

To visualize the fields you can use 'xrec':

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But you need to have connected with 'ssh -YC ...' to open windows.
For more information about 'xrec' check here as well:    xrec - documentation

Manipulate RPN files

To extract fields you can use either 'r.diag select ...' or 'editfst'. You can find information about both here:   Manipulating RPN files
But both these tools can be a little tricky to use. So don't hesitate to contact me when you get there!

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In general it would be better to keep GEM output in RPN format to avoid "doubling" the output data. However, in some cases it can be useful to convert files in RPN format to NetCDF format or vice versa.
The tool with which one can do this is called cdf2rpn.  You can find information about cdf2rpn under the following link:    cdf2rpn - documentation

Running GEM

CRCM/GEM is installed on certain clusters of The Digital Research Alliance of Canada. 

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