http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/ is our "standard". If you drill down into the NCEP models, you will come to opendap URLs that you can give to NetcdfDataset.open(). Jon Blower wrote:
Hi John, Do you know of a public THREDDS server that I can connect to using NetcdfDataset.open()? I'm having problems with our local installation and I'd like to test against a "known good". Cheers, Jon