Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer > Dashboard > Choosing Data Sources

The Radar chooser contains three sub-tabs that allow you to choose NEXRAD Level III data on remote ADDE servers or NEXRAD Level II/III data from your file system or a remote THREDDS Data Server (TDS). The Level III chooser works similarly to the Image chooser described above:

1. Choose an ADDE Server and a Dataset to use:

2. Press Connect:

   This causes the IDV to query the server for available radar types and stations.

3. Select a station using the map:

4. Select a radar type:

   Once a station and a radar type has been selected the ADDE server will be queried as to the available times. Optionally, you can override the default data type that is returned.

5. Or, choose a set of absolute times (e.g., 12Z, 1Z):

   When choosing absolute times for the first time the IDV needs to query the ADDE server for the times. Times can be selected in the list or the time line (use control/click or shift/click in the list to select multiple times). See the Timeline section for details on its use.

6. When done, load the selected radar data with the Add Source button.

 

Unidata's Integrated Data Viewer > Dashboard > Choosing Data Sources