[las_users] HowTo use descriptor files

[Bernhard Giner <giner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all,

is there any possibility to use descriptor files in las Armstrong 1.1 and 
serve them via thredds? Or any other possibility.
We have about 170 variables, each one is splitted in about 70 .nc files, each  
about 500 GB representing one month.
I can use a descriptor file in LAS and plot data but if I try to define a 
variable it fails. Also thredds fail to serve this data. 

If you want to have a look:
http://airdata.mpch-mainz.mpg.de/las-a

my tests are in dataset "eval19"
ACETO2 is my test with a descriptor file
BrO is one single .nc file

The descriptor files look like that:
--
 &FORMAT_RECORD
     D_TYPE        = '  MC',
     D_FORMAT      = '  1A',
     D_SOURCE_CLASS       = 'MODEL OUTPUT',
 /
 &BACKGROUND_RECORD
      D_EXPNUM      = '0001',
      D_TITLE       = 'eval19',
      D_T0TIME      = '01-Jan-1998 00:00:00',
      D_TIME_UNIT   = 3600,
      D_TIME_MODULO = .FALSE.,
 /
 &MESSAGE_RECORD
      D_MESSAGE     = ' ',
      D_ALERT_ON_OPEN      = F,
      D_ALERT_ON_OUTPUT    = F,
 /
 &EXTRA_RECORD
 /
 &STEPFILE_RECORD
       s_filename    
= '/data/projects/MESSy1.1/eval19/ACETO2/ACETO2_200001.nc',
       S_START       = 17520,
       S_END  = 18260,
       S_DELTA       = 5,
       S_NUM_OF_FILES       = 1,
       S_REGVARFLAG  = ' ',
(...)

thank you in advance 
Bernhard
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