Hi Jon,
just an fyi ...
The OPeNDAP developers have *just* announced a BETA (ALPHA?) version
of their "translating client". In principle this offers a new option
for reading OPeNDAP Sequence data (I believe that at this stage the translating
client handles only single-depth Sequences -- not nested Sequences)
Note that if we are dealing with a single level Sequence, rather than
a 2-level nesting such as DAPPER produces, then the logic for handling
the data is quite simple.
- steve
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Jonathan Callahan wrote:
Adam,
I was able to look at your OPeNDAP server at
nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov:9091/dods/IGRA_MONTHLY_RAOBS/igra.200301
and the sequence data it provides. Right now, there is no LAS 'driver'
for generic OPeNDAP sequence servers. The closest thing we have is
the Dapper driver in las/xml/perl/TMAP/TMAPDapper.pm. In
order for you to include this data into LAS you would need to write another
driver that knows how to make requests of your server and how to parse
the output. (In my initial tests I was unable to get the server to
respond with a subset of variables. It always gave me all of them.)
Besides the Dapper driver example, we do have instructions on how to do
this here:
http://ferret.pmel.noaa.gov/LASdoc/serve/cache/25.html
Admittedly, this would be a very nice piece of functionality to add to
LAS but we are unlikely to look into this ourselves for at least the next
couple of months.
Sorry it's not already done for you..
-- Jon
Adam Baxter wrote:
Guys,
I'm working on editing the las.xml to add in one of our
station data files. I have yet to actually put it in due to an issue with
the data itself.
Asciival is reporting missing variables in the data file,
which is to be expected. As explained to me, not every variable was recorded
by every station, such as wind speed and wind direction.
So, how do I code this into the las.xml? Will LAS figure
this out on its own or does something special need to be done?
Thanks!
Adam
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