Implementing a Python Utility Library for accessing PO.DAAC NASA JPL

Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center(PO.DAAC) at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory has a web API enabling efficient machine-to-machine communication and data transfers. This project is aimed at implementing a python API to interact with PO.DAAC and access the data by interacting with the RESTful web services provided by PO.DAAC’s API, which thereafter will be integrated with the Apache Open Climate Workbench. The Apache Open Climate Workbench(OCW) project has already got support for using RCMES and local datasets for data analysis and plotting. With ESGF data source support on its way this project will be a new milestone for OCW for Climate Model Evaluation.