It is kindly suggested to read the WMS Primer page (WxS - OpenEarth - Deltares Public Wiki) before continue reading this tutorial. This page will guide on how to make a WMS request to the server. In this page the The attention will be focused on Vaklodingen Dataset and it will be explained how to open and display data in Qgis via OCG Web Mapping Service. We have chosen “VaklodingenKB134_0908.nc” file. First of all we need to make a request to the server, as explained in WMS Primer page. Get the information from the service by typing the GetCapabilities request on your search engine. We can type the following URL:
...
SELECT DIFFERENT TIME SLICES
...
If we don’t specify the time slice we want to display, the default time slice is the latest, in this case is 2013. To select another year we need to modify the URL. Suppose we want to display the layer for year 1985:
It is necessary to keep the WMS format of the time and to ignore GetMap and GetFeatureInfo URI reported in capabilities, in order to use given URI from the URL-field above.
...