Downloading DAYMET Monthly Climate data

In order to download the monthly averaged climate series from DAYMET first log into the NASA Data portal: https://urs.earthdata.nasa.gov

Navigate to the DAYMET monthly climate series: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/dsviewer.pl?ds_id=128 

To correctly cite the data, read the data documentation and see citation policy here: http://daac.ornl.gov/cgi-bin/citation.pl

Select the time series of some number of years, or all of the data using the Shopping Cart.

You will receive an email with an FTP location for the files (valid for 7 days).

Open CyberDuck and copy/paste the FTP url from your email or browser. CyberDuck will Mount the data (this takes a few minutes even on the UofA's high speed connections). After the data are mounted you will see the files. Sort them by type (I am only interested in the .TIF files) and download them to a local drive or another location (like iPlant). 

I renamed all of the files to fit the existing workflow using a Bulk Rename Utility.

After I uploaded the files to my iPlant datastore for safe keeping I created a public-html folder on the OpenScienceGrid using the eemtdemo user name:

/local-scratch/public_html/eemtdemo

The public html appears as:  http://xd-login.opensciencegrid.org/scratch/eemtdemo/DAYMET/

Set all of the file's user privileges to UNIX permission 755 (rwxr-xr-x).