Important

• Please read the Terms of use document available at http://terms.wdc-climate.de!
• Installation instructions can be found at the end of this page.
• Jblob versions prior to 1.4.16 are unsupported and may lead to problems during dataset download.
• Starting with V1.4.16 the '-useproxy' option works with machine cera-www.dkrz.de port 1630, please update your firewall configuration if necessary.

• jblob usage & examples
  
  
• jmeta usage & examples

Installation prerequisites

Jblob needs an installed Java Runtime Environment (either JRE or JDK of version 1.2 or above). For best performance jre/jdk 1.4.2 or above is recommended.

Please note: GCJ is NOT supported! If you install a Sun JDK/JRE in addition to a pre-installed gcj-based java distribution make sure to change the global JAVA_HOME environment variable to the new setting.

You can download the Java Runtime Environment at http://java.sun.com/javase/downloads/index.jsp.

Installation

1. Download the program archive Jblob.tar. This file contains all files neccessary for use with Windows and Unix.
2. Extract the contents of the archive to the desired installation directory.
3. Unix / Linux: Set the JAVA_HOME environment variable or edit the JAVA_HOME variable in the file 'settings'. The 'settings' file is only evaluated if there is no global JAVA_HOME defined.
   Windows: Open the jblob/jmeta start script (jblob.bat, jmeta.bat) and edit the lines setting JAVA_HOME and JBLOB_HOME as needed.

• jblob/jmeta use a JDBC connection to transfer data from our databases to the client system, therefore firewalls may interfere with the operation of the tool. Currently the firewall has to be opened for machines ds6a.dkrz.de, ds6b.dkrz.de, ds6d.dkrz.de, ds6e.dkrz.de and ds6f.dkrz.de, port 1521 OR (when used with the -useproxy option) for machine cera-www.dkrz.de, port 1630.