Description
Currently, NHC best track data must be staged on disk in order to use it (there is no option to retrieve the data if it is not staged on disk). This is inconvenient, as the data is only stored in a known location on disk for MSU Hercules/Orion.
Solution
Retrieve NHC best track data from the FTP archives: https://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/atcf/archive/
This will require the addition of new functionality in retrieve_data.py to retrieve data from FTP servers. This could be useful for other observations in the future as well.
Description
Currently, NHC best track data must be staged on disk in order to use it (there is no option to retrieve the data if it is not staged on disk). This is inconvenient, as the data is only stored in a known location on disk for MSU Hercules/Orion.
Solution
Retrieve NHC best track data from the FTP archives: https://ftp.nhc.noaa.gov/atcf/archive/
This will require the addition of new functionality in retrieve_data.py to retrieve data from FTP servers. This could be useful for other observations in the future as well.