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I am using THREDDS 3.6, and like Bjørge Solli, I have been trying out the example aggregation code. When I initialize the catalog, I get no errors or warning in the catalog error file (with addition of dataType="Grid" to the dataset element). I am then able to select the "WEST-CONUS_4km Aggregation" dataset. However, when I select the Access: OPENDAP link, I get the error: Error { code = 1; message = "No data root for dodsC/satellite/3.9/WEST-CONUS_4km"; }; In one of many attempted workarounds, I tried putting the ncml into its own file so I could access it through an <access> element. However, it appears that the <access> element ignores the dataFomat="NcML" attribute and tries to open the ncml as a netcdf and throws an error. If anyone has an example xml that uses netcdf aggregation elements please let me know... I really need this to work! BTW, my xml is: <catalog xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/thredds/InvCatalog/v1.0" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" name="THREDDS-IDD OPeNDAP Data Server" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/thredds/InvCatalog/v1.0 http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/schemas/thredds/InvCatalog.1.0.1.xsd" version="1.0.1"> <service name="ncdods" serviceType="OPENDAP" base="/thredds/dodsC/" /> <dataset name="WEST-CONUS_4km Aggregation" ID="SSEC/IDD-Satellite/3.9/WEST-CONUS_4km-Agg" urlPath="satellite/3.9/WEST-CONUS_4km" dataType="Grid"> <serviceName>ncdods</serviceName> <netcdf xmlns="http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/namespaces/netcdf/ncml-2.2"> <aggregation dimName="time" type="joinNew"> <variableAgg name="IR" /> <scan dateFormatMark="WEST-CONUS_4km_3.9_#yyyyMMdd_HHmm" location="/data/ldm/pub/native/satellite/3.9/WEST-CONUS_4km/" suffix=".gini" /> </aggregation> </netcdf> </dataset> </catalog>