These ideas may be too complicated to implement in a short time frame, but...
(0) In Giovanni, we serialize the netCDF to JSON for certain kinds of plots
(scatterplots, time-series), then use JS packages like HighCharts to visualize.
It still takes a bit of code though, and I doubt ours would be instantly
reusable in your setting. :-(
(1) Some folks have put together a a recipe for running IDV in "headless" mode
on the server...
(2) For data that can be mapped, you can use the THREDDS Data Server to
visualize via WMS, yes? Or failing that, stand up a MapServer pointing to the
OPeNDAP data (need not be on the same machine). I think you can use a Google
Earth plugin for the browser to make this work on the client side.
(Bright side is, I think you may have stumbled on a pretty cool proposal idea.
Oops, did I say that out loud?)
On Sep 25, 2013, at 1:19 AM, Charlie Zender <zender@xxxxxxx>
wrote:
> Hi Roy,
>
> Errr...No. I can only install extensions to the Chrome
> browswer that are made available through the Chrome
> browser "extension finder"...stuff like AdBlockPlus.
> I cannot modify the data servers themselves.
> I need either a browser extension or a website that
> let's me point it towards a netCDF files on a
> second, publicly accessible website. And the
> Chrome extension comes up empty when I enter "netcdf".
Miss the good old days when HDF visualization was built into the NCSA Mosaic
browser...
> Is it really possible that no one has written a
> browser extension to graphically view netCDF files?
>
> cz
>
> Le 24/09/2013 21:52, Roy Mendelssohn - NOAA Federal a écrit :
>> HI Charlie:
>>
>> I am not entirely clear of your situation. Would a feasible solution
>> include installing a piece of software on a server you have somewhere that
>> would provide this capability?
>>
>> -Roy
>> On Sep 24, 2013, at 6:00 PM, Charlie Zender <zender@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> In a class I will teach starting Thursday (!)
>>> I would like to display plots/graphics of
>>> geophysical fields stored in netCDF files
>>> on publicly accessible websites. The problem
>>> is that I would like to do this via a
>>> Chromebook which means everything needs to
>>> work via the browser. I can't install additional
>>> software (like Panoply or Webwinds or ...)
>>> The files will be directly accessible on the
>>> web as .nc files or via Thredds and DAP servers.
>>> Is there a pure web-browser-based
>>> solution that will make graphics out of
>>> netCDF files?
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> cz
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