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20050310: Follow-up to our discussion about IDV

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  • Subject: 20050310: Follow-up to our discussion about IDV
  • Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 07:36:09 -0700
>From: "Murray Brown" <address@hidden>
>Organization: ?
>Keywords: 200503101211.j2ACBpv2004802

Hi Murray

>Thank you for taking the time to discuss IDV yesterday.  To follow up on the
>CDC THREDDS catalog problem, here is a typical URL from the OPeNDAP version
>of CDCs catalog:
>
>http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/Datasets/coads/1degree/global/enh/air.m
> ean.nc
>
>and here is the URL for the same file (as it appears in the error message
>when IDV cannot access it from the CDC THREDDS catalog)
>
>http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/dodsC/Datasets/coads/1degree/global/enh/air.mean.nc.dd
> s
>
>The difference is obvious here, but I don't know if this reflects an error
>or some of the mysterious stuff UNIX guys do with location aliases.  The CDC
>stuff is still not accessible today (via the IDV tool), so I think it is not
>a transient problem with their server, but a problem with the syntax in the
>THREDDS catalog (which might be out of date?).

I contacted someone who used to work at CDC and he gave me a lead
on who to contact there.  I'll contact them and let you know what
I find out.

From your investigation, it looks like they made a change on 
their server, but the catalog is out of date.

Don Murray
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