If you are wiling to play around with javascript, there is jsdap, a javascript
implementation of OPeNDAP. But that doesn't solve the visualization problem.
-Roy
On Sep 25, 2013, at 6:48 AM, "H. Joe Lee" <hyoklee@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi, Charlie!
>
> Does the following URL [1] work on your Chromebook showing Google Earth?
>
> If so, I think you (or your students) can write some JavaScript that
>
> 1) requests lat/lon/data from THREDDS/OPeNDAP in ASCII with constraint
> expression
> 2) parse it and build KML using polygon drawing or place marker
> 3) run the code from [1]
>
> I've played the above idea a little bit last night after seeing your
> message with my Chrome but I could not confirm it with
> Chromebook/ChromeOS.
>
> Regards,
>
> [1] https://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playground/?exp=earth#parse_kml
>
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>
>
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 8:00 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
>> --
>> Charlie Zender, Earth System Sci. & Computer Sci.
>> University of California, Irvine 949-891-2429 )'(
>>
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