FTP access to TAO/TRITON, PIRATA, and RAMA data

If you would prefer to access our data via FTP, we do provide all of the high resolution, daily, 5-day, monthly, and quarterly averaged data on our FTP site.

Please contact oar.pmel.taotech@noaa.gov for instructions.

Changes to FTP server access Oct 2023:

Due to the security issues associated with old-style FTP our server ftp.pmel.noaa.gov now requires the use of secure FTP with encryption.

wget users

add this option to your wget request: --secure-protocol=auto

and you might try a variation on the syntax for wget like this using ftps://:
wget "ftps://ftp.pmel.noaa.gov/cdf/..."

Special note for linux users of wget: we recommend wget version 1.18 or later

curl users

Add these options to your curl request: -k and either --ftp-ssl-reqd or --ssl-reqd

and you might try a variation on the syntax for curl using ftps:// rather than ftp://

linux FTP users

The linux secure ftp package lftp is recommended and is very similar to ftp