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I'm trying to make a netCDF dataset (derived from NCEP/DOE Reanalysis 2) available on my thredds server via WCS. The problem is, if I just put it as is, no data is provided in ContentMetadata section of response on GetCapabilities request (so, DescribeCoverage and GetCoverage requests don't work at all). It seems that variables and dimensions named 'lon' and 'lat' should be renamed to 'x' and 'y' correspondingly. If I make these changes in the file itself, all kinds of WCS requests are able to be performed. However, this is not the acceptable solution, as files have to be stored without changes. Also, I've tried renaming variables and dimension via NcML as follows: ... <dimension name="x" orgName="lon" length="192"/> <dimension name="y" orgname="lat" length="94"/> <variable name="x" orgName="lon" shape="x"/> <variable name="y" orgName="lat" shape="y"/> <variable name="uwnd" orgName="uwnd" shape="time y x"/> <variable name="land" orgName="land" shape="y x"/> <variable name="hgt" orgName="hgt" shape="y x"/> ... Getting access through OPenDAP query form, I see that all stuff is renamed in correct way, but there's no affect on WCS (ContentMetadata in response on GetCapabilities is still empty). I suppose only representation to a client is affected. Is there any way to rename variables and dimensions virtually so that renaming would affect not only presentation to a client but also allow WCS service work correctly using these virtual naming? (Or maybe there's some way to make WCS work even without dimensions renaming?)
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