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sorry, i misled you. use openDataset() or openFile(). I make the same mistake all the time. Jon Blower wrote:
Thanks John, Could you give me an example of a "thredds:" string that I could pass to NetcdfDataset.open(), i.e. "thredds:http://motherlode.ucar.edu:8080/thredds/catalog.xml#datasetID" With our local THREDDS server I can't figure out what to pass as the datasetID - everything I try comes up "not found". Cheers, Jon On 2/27/07, John Caron <address@hidden> wrote: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 >