Calculating 'MT' for OPenDAP

[Arlindo da Silva]

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:13 PM, Mark Hess <mhess at oceani.com> wrote:
>  I am trying to use the HYCOM utility:
>  http://hycom.coaps.fsu.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/glb_nrt_analysis.html .  One
> of the parameters is 'MT'  which is the number of days since December 31
> 1900, 00:00:00.  I understand Matlab has utilities to compute the numbers
> for the MT parameter, but does anyone know if GRaDS has the capability of
> automatically computing the MT number for today's date?  If anyone has used
> GRaDS with the HYCOM site, please let me know.  I could use a few tips.
>

It would help if you let us know what exactly you are trying to do.
There are a number of ways to get to MT through a Julian day
calculation. Your main problem is that this OPeNDAP dataset is *not*
COARDS compliant, so you will need to prepare a DDF (or ctl) for it.

    Arlindo

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