Serving remote datasets with the NetCDF server

[Ethan Davis]

Hi Rich,

John should be back in the office tomorrow and will be able to give a 
more definitive answer. However, I don't see anything in the code that 
would restrict the netCDF server from working on remote datasets. We 
currently have our motherlode.ucar.edu server setup to provide ncServer 
access only for local NCEP GRIB data but from what I'm seeing it appears 
we could set it up to work with any dataset (local or remote) as long as 
it is gridded and follows a convention the netCDF-java library understands.

Sorry, just realized that I might not be answering the question you were 
asking. Were you asking: 1) Can a TDS be setup to serve local or remote 
data via the netCDF Server? Or 2) Can a TDS that publishes a netCDF 
Server handle a URL for a remote dataset that the TDS isn't already 
configured to serve?

My first paragraph above tries to answer question 1.

If you are asking the second question, I don't see anything in the code 
that would handle that.

Sorry for the confusion.

Ethan

Rich Signell wrote:
> THREDDS folk,
>
> The remote data set serving capability of the THREDDS WCS is 
> fantastic, and it would be great if this capability could eventually 
> be added to the NetCDF Server.
>
> (right now, I understand from
> http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9080/thredds/docs/NetcdfServer.html
> that the NetCDF Server currently only works on IDD/NCEP grib data 
> served by the TDS)
>
> Then folks would have a simple tool to extract collections of 
> subsetted variables from any OpenDAP served CDM and receive a NetCDF 
> file.  That seems to be what most our users want to do.
>
> Thanks,
> Rich

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