Re: [thredds] NetCDF Subset Service

  • To: Richard Signell <rsignell@xxxxxxxx>
  • Subject: Re: [thredds] NetCDF Subset Service
  • From: Nathan Potter <ndp@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 17 Jun 2016 09:16:00 -0700
Rich,

Yeah, I do want all that. We are working on WCS for 3D+time (4 independent 
vars) and I was working to get some real test datasets.


N


> On Jun 17, 2016, at 7:41 AM, Signell, Richard <rsignell@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> Nathan,
> I took your same request, but changed the horizontal stride from 1 to
> 100 (horizStride=100)
> 
> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/ncss/grib/NCEP/GFS/Global_0p25deg/best?var=u-component_of_wind_isobaric&var=v-component_of_wind_isobaric&horizStride=100&time_start=2016-06-13T00%3A00%3A00Z&time_end=2016-07-02T06%3A00%3A00Z&timeStride=1&vertCoord=&addLatLon=true&accept=netcdf4
> 
> It took 12 minutes, but successfully completed the request, delivering
> a 2MB netcdf4 file which I've attached and placed here:
> 
> http://geoport-dev.whoi.edu/thredds/catalog/usgs/data2/rsignell/test/catalog.html?dataset=usgs/data2/rsignell/test/best.nc
> 
> Checking out the DDS at
> http://geoport-dev.whoi.edu/thredds/dodsC/usgs/data2/rsignell/test/best.nc.dds
> I see that you are asking for 117 time steps, and there are 31
> vertical levels in these variables.
> 
> Did you really want all that?
> 
> Your original request (with horizStride=1) would have been a request
> for 100x100=10,000 times more data, or roughly 20GB of data.   Perhaps
> that's why it crapped out?
> 
> But I agree the original error message you received was not very informative.
> 
> -Rich
> 
> 
> 
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:18 PM, Nathan Potter <ndp@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> 
>> I used this form:
>> 
>>  
>> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/ncss/grib/NCEP/GFS/Global_0p25deg/best/dataset.html
>> 
>> To construct this NetCDF Subset Service request:
>> 
>>  
>> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/ncss/grib/NCEP/GFS/Global_0p25deg/best?var=u-component_of_wind_isobaric&var=v-component_of_wind_isobaric&horizStride=1&time_start=2016-06-13T00%3A00%3A00Z&time_end=2016-07-02T06%3A00%3A00Z&timeStride=1&vertCoord=&addLatLon=true&accept=netcdf4
>> 
>> Which returns the following remarkably cryptic message:
>> 
>>  first (-66) must be >= 0
>> 
>> Does anybody have some thoughts as to what I might change to make the 
>> request successful, or to get a more understandable message?
>> 
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Nathan
>> 
>> 
>> = = =
>> Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
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Nathan Potter                        ndp at opendap.org
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