Directions for Copying Images to Local Machine

In order to keep this page available as a reference while you peruse the available data, click on the "Clone" button at the bottom of the Mosaic window. A second Mosaic window will appear that will retain the contents of this page while you go back and forth through the main Mosaic window.

From inside Mosaic:

  1. Go to the "Individual Mission Summaries" section at the end of the main TOGA COARE aircraft summary page. Go to the mission of interest.
  2. From the "Options" menu at the top of the Mosaic window, set "Load to Local Disk". (Look at the Options menu again. If set properly, a yellow square will appear before "Load to Local Disk".)
  3. Click on the "Copy All Mission Images" hypertext at the bottom of the page. In the "Name for binary file on local disk" box, indicate where you'd like to store this file. You can name the file anything you want.
  4. From the "Options" menu at the top of the Mosaic window, unset "Load to Local Disk". (Look at the Options menu again. If unset properly, the yellow square which was in front of "Load to Local Disk" should be gone.) If this is not done properly, none of the hypertext will work correctly and everything that is clicked on will be transferred to the local machine.
In the directory on your local machine where the images reside:
  1. The file you copied from Mosaic is a tar file of all the images for the mission of interest. To get the individual image files, untar the copied file (type: "tar xvf filename"). This will give you a series of flightlevel data/satellite image files (HHMM.s.gif) and/or a series of flightlevel data/satellite image/radar image files (HHMM.rs.gif).
From inside Mosaic:
  1. If you have cloned the instruction window and no longer need it, choose "Close Window" from the "File" pulldown menu in the top left corner of the Mosaic window. This will close the cloned window.