ifremer objectively analyzed salinity

[Don Hooper]

Did you use the gradsdods version of the GrADS client?  It works fine for
me with version 1.8SL10.

-Hoop
> From owner-gradsusr at LIST.CINECA.IT  Thu Apr 14 11:45:19 2005
> Reply-To: GRADSUSR at LIST.CINECA.IT
> From: Thomas LOUBRIEU <Thomas.Loubrieu at IFREMER.FR>
>
> Dear Semyon,
>
> I am the luycky provider of the dods url you're trying to use.
> Actually, the openDAP interface is provided through GrADS-DODS server,
> but unfortunatly we didn't test it with a GrADS client.
> It's more or less working with ferret or matlab clients even if we
> experienced
> some unexpected behaviours of the server.
>
> I've just tried to access the salinity dataset the way you did and I got
> the same error.
> I'm not a GrADS expert myself, so I cannot help you further. But I'd
> like to know why it doesn't work and if I should change something on the
> server side.
>
> The dataset is archived as netcdf weekly files. They are aggragated
> thanks to a ctl file, then read by GraDS 1.2.9b3 and distributed through
> openDAP interface by gds 1.2.9.
> I hope this helps.
>
> Regards,
>
> Thomas
>
> Semyon Grodsky wrote:
>
> >Dear all:
> >Got problem attempting to access the objectively analyzed salinity in the
> >Atlantic.
> >Data reference is available at
> >
> >http://www.ifremer.fr/las/servlets/metadata?catitem=295
> >
> >To open data I type the following in the gradsdods terminal window
> >
> >sdfopen http://www.ifremer.fr/dodsG/coriolis-atlantic-salinity-weekly-oa_v3_rt
> >
> >The response is
> >Couldn't ingest SDF metadata.
> >If this was an HDF-SDS file, try gradshdf
> >
> >Running gradshdf doesn't help.
> >
> >Does anybody has an experience on porting this salinity dataset into
> >GRADS.
> >If yes, sharing hints would be strongly appreciated.
> >
> >--Senya
> >
> >--------------------------------------------------------
> >Semyon Grodsky
> >224 Computer and Space Science Building, Room 2409
> >Department of Meteorology
> >University of Maryland
> >College Park, MD 20742
> >
> >Phone:  301-405-5330
> >Fax:    301-314-9482
> >E-mail: senya at atmos.umd.edu