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Can I get a netCDF file from an OPeNDAP server?

April 26, 2017file netCDF opendap server

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Can I get a netCDF file from an OPeNDAP server?

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The OPeNDAP servers do not currently support a service that can return a netCDF files. So the best bet is to use a client that can access OPeNDAP data and knows how to output netCDF files. A simple example is the NCO (NetCDF Operators) package, e.g., ncks http://dods_server/dataset.nc out.nc. The NCO package supplies various command line tools for manipulating netCDF files and can be made OPeNDAP aware. See our “Available OPeNDAP Clients” web page for more information on NCO. Note: NCO tools can also be used to dump data in ASCII (like the OPeNDAP ‘.asc’ extension) or IEEE binary format.