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OPeNDAP (Open-source Project for a Network Data Access Protocol) can be used to import NetCDF data from an OPeNDAP server directly into Delft-FEWS. For more information on OPeNDAP see http://opendap.org/. Currently only the import of NetCDF files from an OPeNDAP server is supported. Three types of NetCDF data can be imported: grid time series, scalar time series and profile time series. For more information on these specific import types see their individual pages: NETCDF-CF_GRID, NETCDF-CF_TIMESERIES and NETCDF-CF_PROFILE.
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To import only data for a given period of time, specify either a relative period or an absolute period in the general section of the import configuration file. See relativeViewPeriod, startDateTime and endDateTime for more information. The import will first search the metadata of each file that needs to be imported from the OPeNDAP server. Then for each file that contains data within the specified period, only the data within the specified period will be imported. The start and end of the period are both inclusive.
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