Error downloading distance-from-coast data from NASA

[peanutfun]

Describe the problem
Distance from coast data cannot be downloaded from NASA. The webpage does not exist anymore: https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/distfromcoast/

Backtrace:

url = 'https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/distfromcoast/GMT_intermediate_coast_distance_01d.zip'
download_dir = PosixPath('/home/runner/climada/data'), overwrite = True

    def download_file(url, download_dir=None, overwrite=True):
        """Download file from url to given target folder and provide full path of the downloaded file.
    
        Parameters
        ----------
        url : str
            url containing data to download
        download_dir : Path or str, optional
            the parent directory of the eventually downloaded file
            default: local_data.save_dir as defined in climada.conf
        overwrite : bool, optional
            whether or not an already existing file at the target location should be overwritten,
            by default True
    
        Returns
        -------
        str
            the full path to the eventually downloaded file
        """
        file_name = url.split("/")[-1]
        if file_name.strip() == "":
            raise ValueError(f"cannot download {url} as a file")
        download_path = (
            CONFIG.local_data.save_dir.dir() if download_dir is None else Path(download_dir)
        )
        file_path = download_path.absolute().joinpath(file_name)
        if file_path.exists():
            if not file_path.is_file() or not overwrite:
                raise FileExistsError(f"cannot download to {file_path}")
    
        try:
            req_file = requests.get(url, stream=True)
        except IOError as ioe:
            raise type(ioe)("Check URL and internet connection: " + str(ioe)) from ioe
        if req_file.status_code < 200 or req_file.status_code > 299:
>           raise ValueError(
                f"Error loading page {url}\n"
                f" Status: {req_file.status_code}\n"
                f" Content: {req_file.content}"
            )
E           ValueError: Error loading page https://oceancolor.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/distfromcoast/GMT_intermediate_coast_distance_01d.zip
E            Status: 444
E            Content: b'403 Forbidden\n'

climada/util/files_handler.py:97: ValueError

How to solve this
Possible solutions:

• Upload a cached file to the data API
• Use alternative accessor: https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/thredds/dist2coast.html?dataset=dist2coast_1deg
  • We could download a NetCDF file from here: https://pae-paha.pacioos.hawaii.edu/thredds/ncss/dist2coast_1deg?var=dist&disableLLSubset=on&disableProjSubset=on&horizStride=1&addLatLon=true. However, the download is very slow and it is a NetCDF instead of a GeoTIFF.