Download documentation and processing demo directories

Note

If you are using a prebuilt Virtual Computer, you can skip this step

At this point, you should have a working conda Python environment, you have used Mercurial to clone our repositories into ~/adcpcode/programs, and you have installed all the CODAS code. Now we are going to get components supporting topgraphy, documentation, and demos.

The components to be downloaded are zip archives served from https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/docs/zipped. The most reliable way to download them is by using the curl utility which is available by default on MacOS. You can probably right-click on the items and select “download”, but they may not land where you want them to be. Follow the instructions below for a consistent result.

To download and install everything in the appropriate location, execute:

cd ~/adcpcode/programs
curl -O https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/docs/zipped/adcp_doc.zip
unzip adcp_doc.zip
curl -O https://currents.soest.hawaii.edu/docs/zipped/codas_demos.zip
unzip codas_demos.zip

The first of these contains the same documentation you are reading now:

zip archive	subdirectory	contents
DOCUMENTATION
adcp_doc.zip	adcp_doc	same contents as on WWW

The second contains tutorial and demo material:

zip archive	subdirectory	contents
DEMO PROCESSING
codas_demos_proc.zip	codas_demos/adcp_pyproc	Python3 CODAS Processing Tutorials
	codas_demos/uhdas_data	UHDAS data
	codas_demos/vmdas_data	VmDAS data

Your codas_demos directory structure should look like this after unpacking:

The fourth and final step in getting CODAS processing to work, is to download suitable topography.

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