Setting up OPeNDAP

NASAPrecipitation.jl downloads data from NASA's EOSDIS OPeNDAP servers, which requires registering an account to acces the data. The steps are as follows:

1. You need to register an account with Earthdata and allow access to the NASA EOSDISC on it.

2. Create a .netrc file with the following information: machine urs.earthdata.nasa.gov login <your login> password <your password>

3. Create a .dodsrc file with the following lines: (1) HTTP.COOKIEJAR=/<home directory>/.urs_cookies and (2) HTTP.NETRC=/<home directory>/.netrc

If this sounds complicated however, fear not! You need only perform the first step yourself (i.e. create your own account). NASAPrecipitation.jl will automatically set up the .dodsrc file (if you don't already have one), and once you have your <login> and <password>, you can use the function setup() to set up your .netrc file.

using NASAPrecipitation

setup(
    login = <username>
    password = <password>
)