Querying THREDDS Catalogs & OpenDAP

Capella Datascience allows direct exploration of scientific data servers without downloading entire data collections.

Opening a Remote THREDDS Catalog

  1. Open the THREDDS Explorer or provide a catalog URL in the New Dataset Connection wizard.
  2. The remote catalog XML is parsed into the EMF THREDDS hierarchy.
  3. Expand folders and sub-catalogs to locate datasets of interest.

Inspecting and Plotting Remote OpenDAP Datasets

  1. Select any dataset node in the THREDDS browser.
  2. Right-click and select Open with NetCDF Editor.
  3. Double-click a variable to render a 2D slice directly over the network via OpenDAP.

THREDDS Catalog View