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> Full Name: dave bender > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: pennmanor high school > Package Version: 2.6u2 build date:2009-02-13 19:03 UTC > Operating System: Mac OS X > Hardware: Java: home: > /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/1.6.0/Home version: > 1.6.0_20 j3d:1.3.1 > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:dods.grid with: > http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/modelsNc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_80km/NAM_CONUS_80km_20110513_1200.nc > Unable to open grid: > dods://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/modelsNc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_80km/NAM_CONUS_80km_20110513_1200.nc > > Do you no longer suport version 2.6? > Hi Dave, The problem of opening the dataset in the data server is no longer supported. In the past, we converted the grid file to nc to support some user requirements, and these services had stopped for a while. You should use the grided dataset to replace the original one. In the catalog, IDV catalog > Unidata IDD Model Data > UCAR > North American Model > NCEP NAM CONUS 80 KM. Yuan > ****************** > Stack trace: > ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Error creating data source:dods.grid > with: > http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/modelsNc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_80km/NAM_CONUS_80km_20110513_1200.nc > Unable to open grid: > dods://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/dodsC/modelsNc/NCEP/NAM/CONUS_80km/NAM_CONUS_80km_20110513_1200.nc > > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1510) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1948) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1865) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1799) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1772) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.IdvChooser.makeDataSource(IdvChooser.java:839) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.processNodes(ThreddsHandler.java:707) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.ThreddsHandler.doLoad(ThreddsHandler.java:569) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.XmlChooser.doLoadInThread(XmlChooser.java:631) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at > sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) > at > sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1010) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1038) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: GTS-575013 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed