Facing several errors during running the tutorial notebook

[akasom89]

Hello.

Harmony is a really exciting service.

When i was running the tutorial notebook, faced several errors in the below line :
job_id = harmony_client.submit(request)

1-Exception: ('Bad Request', 'Error: Coverages were not found for the provided variables: blue_var')

2-JSONDecodeError: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

I wonder if the service is running or not.

I also have a general question.
does not the Appears service have similar goals?

[vinnyinverso]

Hi - thanks for the interest! We've added this issue to our queue of things we need to investigate.

does not the Appears service have similar goals?

They do have similar goals. There are a couple of differences that come to mind however. AppEEARS has a user interface while Harmony does not. They also operate on different data sets using different services. Harmony also aims to unify services and data from multiple data centers, and be agnostic to scientific discipline (within earth science). Here is some more documentation on Harmony that you may find useful https://harmony.earthdata.nasa.gov/docs

[chris-durbin]

We were not able to reproduce the issue. I am wondering if there was an issue with the Common Metadata Repository (CMR) catalog at the time you were testing, or if you may have changed the collection that is used in the notebook. The blue_var variable is tied to the sample data collection used in that notebook. Are you seeing the same issue still when running the tutorial.ipynb notebook?