Hi,
NODC recently announced their new OPeNDAP server
(http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/). There's a bunch of wonderful data
available there, but of course the first one I tried didn't work out
very well using Java netCDF tools.
To start with it is an HDF file (or so I assume from the file name
extension). Ferret able to make sense of the geo-referencing in the
file and make a plot. However, I think because the "coordinate
variables" don't follow the convention of having the same name as their
dimension (I assume because of the trickery involved in reading the HDF
file via the netCDF API), the Jave netCDF tools can't make sense of the
file (from the point of view of geo-referencing based on conventions).
I tried my tools and the latest toolsUI.
Is there something that can be done with ncML to augment the metadata or
create new variables that would allow the Java netCDF library to make
see the variables as geo-referenced grids?
Roland
http://data.nodc.noaa.gov/opendap/pathfinder/Version5.0_Climatologies/Monthly/Day/month01_day.hdf
ToolsUI output:
Jul 29, 2009 2:07:00 PM ucar.nc2.dods.DODSGrid <init>
WARNING: DODSGrid cant find dimension = <Latitude>
Jul 29, 2009 2:07:00 PM ucar.nc2.dods.DODSGrid <init>
WARNING: DODSGrid cant find dimension = <Longitude>
