Re: GFDL Agg Server

• To: Benno Blumenthal <benno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Subject: Re: GFDL Agg Server
• From: John Caron <caron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
• Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:58:28 -0600

Benno Blumenthal wrote:

John Caron wrote:

Benno Blumenthal wrote:

John Caron wrote:

Hi benno:

sorry its taken so long to reply, ive been on vacation.

the agg server does in fact send back the entire configuration file, which is a valid catalog. the trick is that the aggregation info is inside a metadata element. this info is useable only by the server itself, so you should ignore it. you should instead access the dataset through the server itself, using the dataset URL in the normal way sorry thats so confusing.

Yes and no.  The catalog is correct

http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/catalogConfig.xml

But if you compare it to

http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/

you see a lot of stuff is missing. I think the problem is that the catalogConfig.xml file has lines like

<!--&deccen_gps_01_ocn;-->
<!--&deccen_gps_01_atm;-->
<!--&deccen_gps_02_ocn;-->
<!--&deccen_gps_02_atm;-->
<!--&deccen_gps_03_ocn;-->
<!--&deccen_gps_03_atm;-->
<!--&deccen_ipcc_a2_01_ocn;-->
<!--&deccen_ipcc_a2_01_atm;-->
<!--&deccen_ctrl_06_ocn;-->
<!--&deccen_ctrl_06_atm;-->
-
    <!--

&ipcc_CM2_0_PIcntr_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_h1_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_h2_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_h3_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_Commit_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_SRESA2_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_1to2x_atmos;
&ipcc_CM2_0_1to4x_atmos;
-->

which it interprets locally as includes to get the full structure. From the outside, I don't get the includes, thus I am missing most of the information.

Benno

Yes, i see what you mean. I hadnt thought about the external entity problem (sigh).

I think you should be able to use:

http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/catalog.xml

to get the "external view" of the catalog.

I still run into problems.   For example, if I go to read

<dataset name="IPCC H1 vars">

<service name="IPCC H1" serviceType="DODS" base="http://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/dods-data/gfdl_cm2_0/CM2Q-d2_1861-2000-AllForc_h1/pp/atmos/ts/monthly/"/>

     <dataset name="IPCC H1 all" urlPath="ipcc_h1_all">
       <metadata metadataType="Aggregation"/>
     </dataset>
   </dataset>

My thredds reader tries to use service IPCC H1 and it fails because ipcc_h1_all is not there. I think the service is supposed to be "this", e.g. http://nomads.gfdl.noaa.gov:8080/thredds/dodsC/ipcc_h1_all.dds Am I messing up service inheritance?

ok heres the relevent pieces of that catalog:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE catalog SYSTEM 
"http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/projects/THREDDS/xml/InvCatalog.0.6.dtd";>

<catalog xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/thredds"; xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"; 
name="GFDL Aggregation Server Catalog" version="0.6">

 <dataset name="GFDL Aggregation Server Catalog Top-level dataset" dataType="Grid" 
serviceName="this">

   <service name="this" serviceType="DODS" base="" />


   <dataset name="IPCC H1 vars">

     <service name="IPCC H1" serviceType="DODS" 
base="http://data1.gfdl.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/dods-data/gfdl_cm2_0/CM2Q-d2_1861-2000-AllForc_h1/pp/atmos/ts/monthly/";
 />

     <dataset name="IPCC H1 all" urlPath="ipcc_h1_all">

       <metadata metadataType="Aggregation" />

     </dataset>

   </dataset>

   ...

though I cannot quite read that one either, probably because of a bug in my program.

Float64 plev;

Dimension plev = 17;
Float64 plev( plev);

Benno