<div dir="ltr">There is definitely a bug. NCL is getting confused by the "grb2" extension in the name, causing the path treated as a local file path rather than as an OpenDAP file. This should be an easy fix.<div> -dave </div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:59 PM, Rick Brownrigg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:brownrig@ucar.edu" target="_blank">brownrig@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi Carl,<br><br></div>Try "http:" rather than "https:" -- it worked for me. In the case of "https:", an strace of NCL revealed it was looking only in the local file system for the file, and there was no network activity. I don't know if that is a bug or intentional behavior.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br><br></font></span></div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Rick<br><div><br></div></font></span></div><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 1:47 PM, Kyle Griffin <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ksgriffin2@wisc.edu" target="_blank">ksgriffin2@wisc.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Carl,<div><br></div><div>I can confirm that I can open the file via netCDF4 in python (1.2.7), but cannot in my installs of NCL (6.3.0). There was a version of netCDF4 that had issues with OPeNDAP a few months ago (1.2.1 ish, perhaps?), but that doesn't explain why the much older NCL 6.3.0 would also fail to open the file.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Kyle</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_455262778968309177h5"><div dir="ltr">On Thu, Apr 27, 2017 at 12:38 PM Carl Schreck <<a href="mailto:cjschrec@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">cjschrec@ncsu.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_455262778968309177h5"><div dir="ltr">I am trying to access CFS Reforecasts from any of the files underneath <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/cfsr-hpr-ts45/catalog.html" target="_blank">here</a>, such as <a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/catalog/cfsr-hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/catalog.html?dataset=cfsr-hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01.2010123118.2011021418.2010123118.grb2" target="_blank">this one for OLR</a>.<div><br></div><div>But NCL does not seem to be able to access the OpenDAP links:</div><div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">ncl 0> f=addfile("<a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/cfsr-hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01.2010123118.2011021418.2010123118.grb2" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc<wbr>.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/cfsr-<wbr>hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/<wbr>uswtoa_f.01.2010123118.2011021<wbr>418.2010123118.grb2</a>","r")</font></div><div><font face="monospace, monospace">fatal:_NclFileCreate: Requested file does not exist as (<a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/cfsr-hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01.2010123118.2011021418.2010123118.grb2" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>thredds/dodsC/cfsr-hpr-ts45/us<wbr>wtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01<wbr>.2010123118.2011021418.2010123<wbr>118.grb2</a>) or as (<a href="https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/thredds/dodsC/cfsr-hpr-ts45/uswtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01.2010123118.2011021418.2010123118" target="_blank">https://nomads.ncdc.noaa.gov/<wbr>thredds/dodsC/cfsr-hpr-ts45/us<wbr>wtoa_f/2010/201012/uswtoa_f.01<wbr>.2010123118.2011021418.2010123<wbr>118</a>), can't add file</font></div><div><br></div><div>I'm trying to figure out if it's an issue with NCL or with their server. It also failed on 6.3.0.</div><div><br></div><div>Let me know if you have any thoughts. 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