Greetings Eric, It looks like the netCDF feature of the eventserver service is not working properly (HttpError 500): http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/netcdf.nc I would contact the manager of that site to see what is the status of the netCDF service. Cheers, Sean > Full Name: Eric > Email Address: address@hidden > Organization: Barrick > Package Version: 4.0u1 build date:2013-03-29 18:10 UTC > Operating System: Windows 7 > Hardware: Java: home: C:\Program Files\IDV_4.0u1\jre version: 1.6.0_43 > j3d:1.5.2 fcs (build4) > Description of problem: > > There was an error loading the data: > > Error creating data source:netcdf.point with: > http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/netcdf.nc?DepthMin=0&DepthMax=500&priority=time&PointsMax=5000&LatMax=-28.42&LatMin=-33.06&LonMax=-69.42&LonMin=-70.62 > Point obs data source failed making data set: > http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/netcdf.nc?DepthMin=0&DepthMax=500&priority=time&PointsMax=5000&LatMax=-28.42&LatMin=-33.06&LonMax=-69.42&LonMin=-70.62 > Unable to make a PointDataset from > http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/netcdf.nc?DepthMin=0&DepthMax=500&priority=time&PointsMax=5000&LatMax=-28.42&LatMin=-33.06&LonMax=-69.42&LonMin=-70.62 > Error = > > ****************** > Stack trace: > ucar.unidata.data.BadDataException: Unable to make a PointDataset from > http://www.iris.washington.edu/servlet/eventserver/netcdf.nc?DepthMin=0&DepthMax=500&priority=time&PointsMax=5000&LatMax=-28.42&LatMin=-33.06&LonMax=-69.42&LonMin=-70.62 > Error = > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.doMakeDataset(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:282) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.getDataset(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:252) > at > ucar.unidata.data.point.NetcdfPointDataSource.initAfterCreation(NetcdfPointDataSource.java:209) > at ucar.unidata.data.DataManager.createDataSource(DataManager.java:1597) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.createDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1980) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1897) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.makeDataSource(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1831) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1673) > at ucar.unidata.idv.DefaultIdv.handleAction(DefaultIdv.java:114) > at > ucar.unidata.idv.IntegratedDataViewer.handleAction(IntegratedDataViewer.java:1605) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.UrlChooser.loadURLInner(UrlChooser.java:267) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.UrlChooser.loadURL(UrlChooser.java:239) > at ucar.unidata.idv.chooser.UrlChooser.doLoadInThread(UrlChooser.java:286) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$2.run(Misc.java:1221) > at ucar.unidata.util.Misc$3.run(Misc.java:1249) > > > Ticket Details =================== Ticket ID: NDM-384039 Department: Support IDV Priority: Normal Status: Open