Greetings,
I have a question about the NetCDF Tools UI. I have been looking at
the JNLP files that are used to "WebStart" the application and the
arguments section looks like this:
<application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>{catalog}#{dataset}</argument>
</application-desc>
And a typical URL to invoke it looks like this:
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/view/ToolsUI.jnlp?catalog=http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml&dataset=fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z
Which in turn returns a JNLP file with the argument element filled in:
<application-desc main-class="ucar.nc2.ui.ToolsUI">
<argument>http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/catalog/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/catalog.xml#fmrc/
NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-
Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z</argument>
</application-desc>
So I would deduce that it wants the catalog URL and the
thredds:dataset/@ID attribute separated by a "#" sign as it's argument.
Does it accept different argument schemes?
Is there a way to simply pass it a DAP data access URL?
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z
Or even a URL that returns a netcdf file?
http://motherlode.ucar.edu/thredds/dodsC/fmrc/NCEP/GFS/Alaska_191km/runs/NCEP-GFS-Alaska_191km_RUN_2010-08-03T12:00:00Z.nc
(This last example is really a fictitious URL but I hope you can
appreciate my point)
Or is it the case that it will only accept a THREDDS catalog and a
dataset ID as arguments?
Nathan
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