The GrADS-DODS Server
What is the
GrADS-DODS Server?
The GrADS-DODS Server (GDS) is a stable, secure data server that provides
subsetting and analysis services across the internet. These services can
be provided for any GrADS-readable dataset. The subsetting capability
allows users to retrieve a specified temporal and/or spatial subdomain
from a large dataset, eliminating the need to download everything simply
to access a small relevant portion of a dataset. The analysis capability
allows users to retrieve the results of an operation applied to one or
more datasets on the server. Examples of analysis operations include basic
math functions, averages, smoothing, differencing, correlation, and regression.
The GDS supports operations that can be expressed in a single GrADS expression.
What is DODS?
DODS (Distributed Oceanographic Data System) is
a software framework used for data networking. DODS provides tools for
making local data accessible to remote locations regardless of local storage
format. See the DODS
home page for more information.
Installing and
running a GrADS-DODS Server
Accessing data
from a GrADS-DODS Server
A list of some GDS sites
COLA's Primary GDS Site: http://cola8.iges.org:9090/
(Click here
to check server's status)
COLA Climate Model Output: http://motherlode.ucar.edu:9090/
NOAA Climate Diagnostics Center: http://web2.cdc.noaa.gov:9090/
GMU's Center for Earth Observing and Space Research: http://esip.gmu.edu:9080/
Read more about the GDS
Here is a conference proceedings paper entitled
"GrADS and DODS"
by Joe Wielgosz and Brian Doty.
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