<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I think the .dods file that an opendap server delivers is just a flat binary file, which GrADS can easily handle. But without knowing what the constraints were when the request was made, it would be difficult to know how to create a descriptor file for it. <div>--Jennifer<br><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 19, 2013, at 1:24 PM, James T. Potemra wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>David:<br><br>Without knowing the format of the file it's pretty much impossible to<br>know how to open it in GrADS. If this is a data set served via OPeNDAP,<br>you should just be able to use "sdfopen" and then the OPeNDAP URL<br>to access the file.<br><br>Jim<br><br>On 11/19/13 12:33 AM, david jan wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">Dear users<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">+ I mean that format file such as z500.nc.dods. I don't know what is format<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">, could you please tell me how to extract.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">+ Notice that, this file couldn;t extract by ncdump in netcdf<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Thank you<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">_______________________________________________<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">gradsusr mailing list<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr">http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr</a><br></blockquote><br>_______________________________________________<br>gradsusr mailing list<br><a href="mailto:gradsusr@gradsusr.org">gradsusr@gradsusr.org</a><br>http://gradsusr.org/mailman/listinfo/gradsusr<br></div></blockquote></div><br><div>
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