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Greetings! It looks like you were trying to open the netCDF Subset Service (ncss) link to the data - try the opendap access method: http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/oceanwinds6hr Cheers! Sean > Full Name: venkat kolluru > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: ERM > Package Version: 3.1 build date:2012-08-31 20:26 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_3.1\jre version: 1.6.0_31 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:file.netcdf with: /thredds/ncss/grid/oceanwinds6hr > Unable to open grid: > /thredds/ncss/grid/oceanwinds6hr > > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/ncss/grid/oceanwinds6hr/dataset.html > > ****************** > Stack trace: > ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Error creating data source:file.netcdf > with: /thredds/ncss/grid/oceanwinds6hr > Unable to open grid: > /thredds/ncss/grid/oceanwinds6hr > > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1627) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1673) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.handleAction(DefaultIdv.java:114) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1605) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.control.TextDisplayControl$10.run(TextDisplayControl.java:1408) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1250) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NTA-864415 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open