[gradsusr] Surface Metar Data

[Jeff Duda]

I don't know about that. I don't regularly use Thredds or any GDS.

MADIS is another story. It's NOAA, so it's pretty bureaucratic and
protected. I'd use a Google search to find how to submit an application.
You can try this site: https://madis-data.noaa.gov/. They had a major
overhaul recently, and a lot of the links are now broken, and the scripts
they gave you to get data are defunct, so I don't know how much luck you'll
have with that.

Jeff

On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 2:53 PM, James Spinks <jspin881 at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Thank you for your response Jeff.
>
> I know I get download the file directly from Thredds, but I was
> specifically talking about downloading the data directly from GDS (
> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/stn/metar/2015). Is that possible?
>
> Also, can you provide a data access link for MADIS? I would like to try
> and work with that.
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
>
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2015 13:53:12 -0500
> From: jeffduda319 at gmail.com
> To: gradsusr at gradsusr.org
> Subject: Re: [gradsusr] Surface Metar Data
>
>
> James,
> You can download the actual data file by clicking on the link for the file
> you want, then either clicking the link under "Access" on the following
> page or by using a Linux command to obtain the data. I used wget to obtain
> an example file. I have never personally worked with these specific data,
> although I have worked with METAR and mesonet obs obtained from MADIS (also
> in netcdf format). I'm sure you could probably write a control file to
> display the station data directly. You'd want to look in the Grads
> documentation for writing a control file for station data.
>
> Jeff Duda
>
> On Wed, Aug 19, 2015 at 1:29 PM, James Spinks <jspin881 at hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have been trying to work with this Surface Metar data from the Thredds
> data server (
> http://thredds.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/nws/metar/ncdecoded/files/catalog.html),
> which is in netcdf format.
>
> Now, I have been able to display the data from GDS (
> http://monsoondata.org:9090/dods/stn/metar/2015), but I want to be able
> to physically download the data and display it because I want to do more
> advance scripting that will require too much bandwidth across GDS. Can you
> download the physical file from GDS?
>
> My questions:
>
> 1) Has anyone ever worked with the surface metar data from Thredds?
> 1) Is there a control file to open and display the surface metar data in
> GrADS?
>
> Thanks,
> James
>
> P.S. if my questions or explanation are not clear I will be happy to
> clarify myself.
>
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