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I am having problems sub-setting the SODA model output using opendap in
NCL and I am wondering if I am using the wrong sub-setting protocol.
A dds query of the data set gives:
Dataset {
Float64 time[time = 612];
Float64 altitude[altitude = 40];
Float64 latitude[latitude = 330];
Float64 longitude[longitude = 720];
GRID {
ARRAY:
Float32 temp[time = 612][altitude = 40][latitude = 330][longitude = 720];
MAPS:
Float64 time[time = 612];
Float64 altitude[altitude = 40];
Float64 latitude[latitude = 330];
Float64 longitude[longitude = 720];
} temp;
GRID {
ARRAY:
Float32 salt[time = 612][altitude = 40][latitude = 330][longitude = 720];
MAPS:
Float64 time[time = 612];
Float64 altitude[altitude = 40];
Float64 latitude[latitude = 330];
Float64 longitude[longitude = 720];
} salt;
GRID {
ARRAY:
Float32 u[time = 612][altitude = 40][latitude = 330][longitude = 720];
MAPS:
Float64 time[time = 612];
Float64 altitude[altitude = 40];
Float64 latitude[latitude = 330];
Float64 longitude[longitude = 720];
} u;
GRID {
ARRAY:
Float32 v[time = 612][altitude = 40][latitude = 330][longitude = 720];
MAPS:
Float64 time[time = 612];
Float64 altitude[altitude = 40];
Float64 latitude[latitude = 330];
Float64 longitude[longitude = 720];
} v;
} hawaii_9d34_0512_2367;
A DAS query of the data set gives
Attributes {
time {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Time";
Float64 actual_range -3.774816e+8, 1.2292992e+9;
String axis "T";
String ioos_category "Time";
String long_name "Centered Time";
String standard_name "time";
String time_origin "01-JAN-1970 00:00:00";
String units "seconds since 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z";
}
altitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Height";
String _CoordinateZisPositive "up";
Float64 actual_range -5.0, -5374.0;
String axis "Z";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Altitude";
String positive "up";
String standard_name "altitude";
String units "m";
}
latitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lat";
Float64 actual_range -75.25, 89.25;
String axis "Y";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Latitude";
String standard_name "latitude";
String units "degrees_north";
}
longitude {
String _CoordinateAxisType "Lon";
Float64 actual_range 0.25, 359.75;
String axis "X";
String ioos_category "Location";
String long_name "Longitude";
String standard_name "longitude";
String units "degrees_east";
}
temp {
Float32 _FillValue -9.99E33;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 32.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 0.0;
String ioos_category "Temperature";
String long_name "Sea Water Temperature";
Float32 missing_value -9.99E33;
String standard_name "sea_water_temperature";
String units "degree_C";
}
salt {
Float32 _FillValue -9.99E33;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 37.0;
Float64 colorBarMinimum 32.0;
String ioos_category "Salinity";
String long_name "Salinity";
Float32 missing_value -9.99E33;
String standard_name "sea_water_salinity";
String units "PSU";
}
u {
Float32 _FillValue -9.99E33;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 0.5;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -0.5;
String ioos_category "Currents";
String long_name "Eastward Sea Water Velocity";
Float32 missing_value -9.99E33;
String standard_name "eastward_sea_water_velocity";
String units "m s-1";
}
v {
Float32 _FillValue -9.99E33;
Float64 colorBarMaximum 0.5;
Float64 colorBarMinimum -0.5;
String ioos_category "Currents";
String long_name "Northward Sea Water Velocity";
Float32 missing_value -9.99E33;
String standard_name "northward_sea_water_velocity";
String units "m s-1";
}
NC_GLOBAL {
String cdm_data_type "Grid";
String Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
String dataType "Grid";
String documentation "http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/datadoc/soda_2.1.6.php";
Float64 Easternmost_Easting 359.75;
Float64 geospatial_lat_max 89.25;
Float64 geospatial_lat_min -75.25;
Float64 geospatial_lat_resolution 0.5;
String geospatial_lat_units "degrees_north";
Float64 geospatial_lon_max 359.75;
Float64 geospatial_lon_min 0.25;
Float64 geospatial_lon_resolution 0.5;
String geospatial_lon_units "degrees_east";
Float64 geospatial_vertical_max -5.0;
Float64 geospatial_vertical_min -5374.0;
String geospatial_vertical_positive "up";
String geospatial_vertical_units "m";
String history "Tue Feb 26 12:55:18 HST 2013 : imported by GrADS Data Server 2.0
2013-03-11T23:17:53Z http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/dods/public_data/SODA/soda_pop2.1.6
2013-03-11T23:17:53Z http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367.das";
String infoUrl "http://www.atmos.umd.edu/~ocean/";
String institution "TAMU/UMD";
String keywords "Oceans > Ocean Circulation > Ocean Currents,
Oceans > Ocean Temperature > Water Temperature,
Oceans > Salinity/Density > Salinity,
circulation, currents, density, depths, eastward, eastward_sea_water_velocity, means, monthly, northward, northward_sea_water_velocity, ocean, oceans, pop, salinity, sea, sea_water_salinity, sea_water_temperature, seawater, soda, tamu, temperature, umd, velocity, water";
String keywords_vocabulary "GCMD Science Keywords";
String license "The data may be used and redistributed for free but is not intended
for legal use, since it may contain inaccuracies. Neither the data
Contributor, ERD, NOAA, nor the United States Government, nor any
of their employees or contractors, makes any warranty, express or
implied, including warranties of merchantability and fitness for a
particular purpose, or assumes any legal liability for the accuracy,
completeness, or usefulness, of this information.";
String Metadata_Conventions "COARDS, CF-1.6, Unidata Dataset Discovery v1.0";
Float64 Northernmost_Northing 89.25;
String sourceUrl "http://apdrc.soest.hawaii.edu/dods/public_data/SODA/soda_pop2.1.6";
Float64 Southernmost_Northing -75.25;
String standard_name_vocabulary "CF-12";
String summary "Simple Ocean Data Assimilation (SODA) version 2.1.6 - A reanalysis of ocean
climate. SODA uses the GFDL modular ocean model version 2.2. The model is
forced by observed surface wind stresses from the COADS data set (from 1958
to 1992) and from NCEP (after 1992). Note that the wind stresses were
detrended before use due to inconsistencies with observed sea level pressure
trends. The model is also constrained by constant assimilation of observed
temperatures, salinities, and altimetry using an optimal data assimilation
technique. The observed data comes from: 1) The World Ocean Atlas 1994 which
contains ocean temperatures and salinities from mechanical
bathythermographs, expendable bathythermographs and conductivity-temperature-
depth probes. 2) The expendable bathythermograph archive 3) The TOGA-TAO
thermistor array 4) The Soviet SECTIONS tropical program 5) Satellite
altimetry from Geosat, ERS/1 and TOPEX/Poseidon.
We are now exploring an eddy-permitting reanalysis based on the Parallel
Ocean Program POP-1.4 model with 40 levels in the vertical and a 0.4x0.25
degree displaced pole grid (25 km resolution in the western North
Atlantic). The first version of this we will release is SODA1.2, a
reanalysis driven by ERA-40 winds covering the period 1958-2001 (extended to
the current year using available altimetry).";
String time_coverage_end "2008-12-15T00:00:00Z";
String time_coverage_start "1958-01-15T00:00:00Z";
String title "SODA - POP 2.1.6 Monthly Means (At Depths)";
Float64 Westernmost_Easting 0.25;
}
}
Accessing the entire dataset using NCL works fine:
;; download SODA model with openDAP
url="http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367"
filename = url
exists = isfilepresent(filename)
if(.not.exists) then
print("OPeNDAP isfilepresent test unsuccessful.")
print("Either file doesn't exist, or NCL does not have OPeNDAP
capabilities on this system")
else
print("OPeNDAP isfilepresent test successful.")
f = addfile(filename,"r")
vars = getfilevarnames(f)
print(vars)
end if
which gives me:
(0) OPeNDAP isfilepresent test successful.
Variable: vars
Type: string
Total Size: 64 bytes
8 values
Number of Dimensions: 1
Dimensions and sizes: [8]
Coordinates:
(0) time
(1) altitude
(2) latitude
(3) longitude
(4) temp
(5) salt
(6) u
(7) v
ncl 46>
But when I add the sub-setting, I receive an error:
url="http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367.nc?temp[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],salt[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],u[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],v[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],w[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)]"
filename = url
exists = isfilepresent(filename)
if(.not.exists) then
print("OPeNDAP isfilepresent test unsuccessful.")
print("Either file doesn't exist, or NCL does not have OPeNDAP
capabilities on this system")
else
print("OPeNDAP isfilepresent test successful.")
f = addfile(filename,"r")
vars = getfilevarnames(f)
print(vars)
end if
The error gives me:
ncl 48> filename = url
ncl 49> exists = isfilepresent(filename)
ncopen: filename
"http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367.nc?temp[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],salt[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],u[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],v[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)],w[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)]":
Operation not permitted
So I thought the time format was likely to be wrong because when I enter
the URL with subset options into a browser, I get an error indicating
that the string is converting to a meaningless number with regard to the
string time origin:
_Your query produced no matching results. Query error: For variable=temp
axis#0=time
Constraint="[(1950-01-15T00:00:00Z):1:(2008-12-15T00:00:00Z)]":
Start="-6.299424E8" is less than the axis minimum=-3.774816E8 (and even
-3.7879647790507364E8).
_.
So I tried just getting a single time step:
url="http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/gridda/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367.nc?temp[(1):1:(2)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)]"
which still returns an error:
ncopen: filename
"http://coastwatch.pfeg.noaa.gov/erddap/griddap/hawaii_9d34_0512_2367.nc?temp[(1):1:(2)][(-5.0):1:(-5374.0)][(25):1:(50)][(230):1:(250)]":
Operation not permitted
OK, so can anyone point me to documentation for the correct subset
format to use, please?
Best fishes
Sam
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Sam McClatchie,
Supervisory oceanographer, Fisheries oceanography
Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA,
8604 La Jolla Shores Drive
La Jolla, CA 92037-1508, U.S.A.
email <Sam.McClatchie@noaa.gov>
Cellular: 858 752 8495
Research home page <www.fishocean.info>
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