Another alternative is to use the ncks command in a dap-enabled form of the NCO
package, which will automatically pull over the coordinate variables:
ncks -4 -d time,480,603 -d lat,20,34 -d lon,26,40 -v air
http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis2/pressure/air.2014.nc
out.nc
> On Jun 22, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Antonio S. Cofiño <cofinoa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Ashwin,
>
> You must also have to specify time, latitude, longitude and level coordinated
> variables associated to the tas variable itself
>
> nccopy -4
> "http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis2/pressure/air.2014.nc?air[480:603][2][20:34][26:40],time[480:603],level[2],lat[20:34],lon[26:40]";
> foo.nc
>
> regards
>
> Antonio
>
> P.S: The air variable is a Grid or ARRAY MAP in DAP terminology and it would
> be possible to do what you want without specifying coordinated variables....
> but the DAP service implemented by THREDDS is simpler in constraint
> expression than others DAP service implementations (i.e. hyrax)
>
> El 22/06/2016 a las 15:20, ashwinD12 . escribió:
>> Hello,
>> I am using nccopy to download NCEP reanalysis files from a THREDDS
>> server using constraint expressions.
>>
>> nccopy -4
>> "http://www.esrl.noaa.gov/psd/thredds/dodsC/Datasets/ncep.reanalysis2/pressure/air.2014.nc?air[480:603][2][20:34][26:40]”;
>> foo.nc
>>
>> However it does not do what I want it to do. When I check the contents of
>> foo.nc it does not download the latitude, longitude, time and level
>> information.
>>
>> The same file downloaded by FTP from ESRL PSD site contains the information
>> of time, latitude , longitude and and level.
>>
>> Is there some other option I need to include in the nccopy command so that
>> the other information is also downloaded ? Do I need to the include the "-v"
>> option ?
>>
>>
>> Following is my sample data from using nccopy -
>>
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[0] hgt[0]=5758 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[1] hgt[1]=5715 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[2] hgt[2]=5679 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[3] hgt[3]=5658 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[4] hgt[4]=5651 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[5] hgt[5]=5656 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[6] hgt[6]=5666 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[7] hgt[7]=5675 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[8] hgt[8]=5680 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[9] hgt[9]=5680 m
>> time[0] level[0] lat[0] lon[10] hgt[10]=5678
>>
>> The same data from FTP -
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[0]=65 hgt[0]=5758 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[1]=67.5 hgt[1]=5715 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[2]=70 hgt[2]=5679 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[3]=72.5 hgt[3]=5658 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[4]=75 hgt[4]=5651 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[5]=77.5 hgt[5]=5656 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[6]=80 hgt[6]=5666 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[7]=82.5 hgt[7]=5675 m
>> time[0]=1879032 level[0]=500 lat[0]=40 lon[8]=85 hgt[8]=5680 m
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Ashwin.
>>
>>
>>
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