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Hi Ben, Welcome to Ferret! There is an example of how to access a NetCDF file from a DODS server in the Ferret Users Guide; look up "DODS, accessing remote data" in the index, which points to Ch2 Sec7.2. Here is the example from the Users Guide, yes? USE "http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/coads_climatology.nc" ! Once the dataset has been initialized, it is used just like any other local dataset. yes? SHOW DATA currently SET data sets: 1> http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/coads_climatology.nc (default) name title I J K L SST SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 AIRT AIR TEMPERATURE 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 SPEH SPECIFIC HUMIDITY 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 WSPD WIND SPEED 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 UWND ZONAL WIND 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 VWND MERIDIONAL WIND 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 SLP SEA LEVEL PRESSURE 1:180 1:90 ... 1:12 yes? LIST/X=140W/Y=2N/T="16-feb" sst VARIABLE : SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE (Deg C) FILENAME : coads_climatology.nc FILEPATH : http://www.ferret.noaa.gov/cgi-bin/nph-nc/data/ LONGITUDE: 141W LATITUDE : 1N TIME : 15-FEB 16:29 26.39 To save the data or a portion of it, use the FILE command. NetCDF is the recommended format for Ferret, and the Ferret command SAVE is an alias to FILE/FORM=cdf . So after opening the data set you might do something like this: yes? SAVE/FILE=myfile.cdf/X=150:200/Y=-40:40 sst, uwnd, vwnd Ben Burford wrote: Hello All, I am a newcomer to Ferret. I want to use Ferret to access data from a remot e DODS server, and to then write that data into a file (in either acsii or n etCDF format) on my own computer as a local file. Can anyone tell me the se quence of commands to do that (or maybe just send me a script that can perfo rm this, that will show me an example of the process)? Thank you, Ben Remote Sensing Technology Center Tokyo |