Downloading Products

In order to download GLDAS NOAH products you have to register an account with NASA’s Earthdata portal at https://disc.gsfc.nasa.gov/.

After that you can use the command line program gldas_download together with your username and password.

For example to download all GLDAS Noah v2.1 Images (3-hourly)

gldas_download /tmp -s 2018-06-03 -e 2018-06-05 --product GLDAS_Noah_v21_025 --username **USERNAME** --password **PASSWORD**

would download GLDAS Noah version 2.1 data from the select start to the selected end day into the ‘/tmp’ folder.

For a description of the download function and all options run

..code:

gldas_download -h