Hi Jon -
There may be some more efficient ways to do this. A scan will open every
single file before it is cached. If your individual files have different time
units, you will need the "timeUnitsChange" attribute on each aggregation scan.
If not, you can remove it.
<dataset name="blah" ID="blah" urlPath="blah.nc">
...
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation type="union">
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinExisting" timeUnitsChange="true">
<scan location="/foo/bar/" suffix="*temp.nc" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinExisting" timeUnitsChange="true">
<scan location="/foo/bar/" suffix="*salt.nc" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinExisting" timeUnitsChange="true">
<scan location="/foo/bar/" suffix="*do.nc" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
<netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2";>
<aggregation dimName="time" type="joinExisting" timeUnitsChange="true">
<scan location="/foo/bar/" suffix="*elevation.nc" />
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
</aggregation>
</netcdf>
</dataset>
Let me know if it works!
> -----Original Message-----
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> bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jon Blower
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2013 9:49 AM
> To: thredds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [thredds] Union of time-aggregated datasets
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a dataset consisting of 4 variables, each recorded on around 1000
> timesteps. Unfortunately each variable and each timestep is provided as a
> separate NetCDF file, so I have about 4000 files. Ideally I'd like to create
> a
> single dataset aggregating all of these variables and timesteps. How can I
> structure my THREDDS catalog to do this?
>
> (It's not a forecast model so there are no overlapping times, so I'd like to
> avoid the FMRC aggregation type if possible.)
>
> Cheers,
> Jon
>
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