Accessing netCDF/OPeNDAP data with Delft3D-Quickplot.
Get Delft3D (http:www.delft3d.nl) (code is available as open source since jan 1st 2011). (Download Delft3D-Quickplot-OPeNDAP manual.)
- select menu file > url and paste the url you just copied. Delft3D-Quikcplot will now download the meta-information from the OPeNDAP server. Even if when the underlying file would be a hundreds of GB, this step is always very fast.
- Select the variable you want to plot by looking at the file contents
- Define the data subset to get.
- et voila
