[gradsusr] how to extract *.dods file

[Lynnes, Christopher S. (GSFC-6102)]

The .dods URL requests only the data payload, not the key metadata that GraDS needs to understand it. However, it is an indication that the data are available via opendap, as Jim suggests. The key is to supply the URL without the .dods extension, I.e., http://blahblah/z500.nc, to whatever netcdf progra, you are using, be it ncdump or grads.

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On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:41 PM, "James T. Potemra" <jimp at hawaii.edu> wrote:

> David:
> 
> Without knowing the format of the file it's pretty much impossible to
> know how to open it in GrADS.  If this is a data set served via OPeNDAP,
> you should just be able to use "sdfopen" and then the OPeNDAP URL
> to access the file.
> 
> Jim
> 
> On 11/19/13 12:33 AM, david jan wrote:
>> Dear users
>> 
>> + I mean that format file such as z500.nc.dods. I don't know what is format
>> , could you please tell me how to extract.
>> + Notice that, this file couldn;t extract by ncdump in netcdf
>> Thank you
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