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Evangelos, I believe there was simply an network outage at ncdc.noaa.gov. Please try again. Best Wishes, Unidata IDV Support > Full Name: Evangelos Voukouvalas > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Hellenic Centre for Marine Research > Package Version: 4.1 build date:2013-08-02 18:38 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\Java\jre7 version: 1.7.0_45 j3d:1.5.2 > fcs (build4) > Description of problem: There was an error loading the data: > Error creating data source:opendap.grid with: > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/oceanwinds6hr > Grid data source failed making data set: > dods://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/oceanwinds6hr > Method failed:HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error on URL= > http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/oceanwinds6hr.dds > > ****************** > Stack trace: > opendap.dap.DAP2Exception: Method failed:HTTP/1.1 500 Internal Server Error > on URL= http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/oceanwinds6hr.dds > at opendap.dap.DConnect2.openConnection(DConnect2.java:271) > at opendap.dap.DConnect2.getDDS(DConnect2.java:563) > at opendap.dap.DConnect2.getDDS(DConnect2.java:537) > at ucar.nc2.dods.DODSNetcdfFile.<init>(DODSNetcdfFile.java:240) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Constructor.newInstance(Unknown Source) > at > ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDodsByReflection(NetcdfDataset.java:1031) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDODS(NetcdfDataset.java:980) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openOrAcquireFile(NetcdfDataset.java:664) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.openDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:421) > at ucar.nc2.dataset.NetcdfDataset.acquireDataset(NetcdfDataset.java:516) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:117) > at ucar.nc2.dt.grid.GridDataset.open(GridDataset.java:103) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.doMakeDataSet(GeoGridDataSource.java:1154) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.getDataset(GeoGridDataSource.java:1176) > at > ucar.unidata.data.grid.GeoGridDataSource.initAfterCreation(GeoGridDataSource.java:502) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1597) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1361) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1344) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.loadDataFiles(IntegratedDataViewer.java:556) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.initInner(IntegratedDataViewer.java:622) > at ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer$3.run(IntegratedDataViewer.java:532) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1251) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: SXP-941825 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Closed