[Paraview] Using paraview with a THREDDS server

[David E DeMarle]

You will have to extend ParaView substantially to make it do this
but it could be done.

The architecture I suggest is a new netcdf based reader that connects
directly to the THREDDS server to get its input. ParaView's client and
server may need finessing to fit DAP messaging in with the
existing client/server connection. Lastly the new reader would either need
to use an external netcdf, or vtk's existing netcdf interface would
have to be upgraded to include the DAP portion of netcdf4.

David E DeMarle
Kitware, Inc.
R&D Engineer
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Clifton Park, NY 12065-8662
Phone: 518-881-4909



On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Sean Delaney <sdelaney at cp.dias.ie> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'd like to find the best way to use Paraview when my data is on a remote
> THREDDS server. I'm not an expert on paraview or threads so I'd love to hear
> from anyone with experience doing this.
>
> I'm interested in visualising climate / weather data that is stored in
> netCDF format (conforming to CF conventions) on a THREDDS server. The
> THREDDS system in an implementation of DAP and allows the user to download
> partial files (just the data you need) using a url-based system. This avoids
> the redundant downloading of huge files if only a small amount of the
> contents are of interest. Can paraview be used in this way?
>
> I know that paraview can handle netCDF data (and CF conventions). However I
> don't know how to access remote netCDF data with DAP / THREDDS. Perhaps
> something could be done with python bindings for netCDF or DAP? Perhaps
> writing a new plugin is required? Surely someone has done this before me?
> Any guidance gratefully accepted!
>
> Sean
>
>
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