Chapter 2. Servers

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Just Regular Old DODS Servers...
Aggregation Servers

Just Regular Old DODS Servers...

These have been around for quite a while and they can usually be identified by their leading URL, e.g. http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/cgi-bin/nph-dods/ .... These can serve a variety of data formats, including

NetCDF

95 percent of data served via OPeNDAP? More than that?

HDF4

Most of the remaining percentage.

Matlab binary, Special ASCII formats

Vanishingly small amount.

HDF5?

In the works...

A DODS server matches a single data file to a single url, e.g. http://gyre.umeoce.maine.edu/cgi-bin/nph-dods/data/gomoos/buoy/archive/A0107/realtime/A0107.met.realtime.nc.info