[thredds] Dumping 1D data THREDDS data as tabular output?

[John Caron]

the CSV output of the NetCDF subsetter service probably would work, but 
we are not yet supporting ncss for user data (ie we have some hacks)

Rich Signell wrote:
> THREDDS Community,
>
> We have a lot of CF-compliant 1D time series data, and people often
> ask us how to get the data into Excel.
>
> It would be nice to have a client that could create tabular output in
> ASCII form (e.g. CSV file) if the data were 1D or effectively 1D (2D,
> 3D or 4D, but with only one non-singleton dimension).
>
> We want a table with time in column 1,  temp in column 2, salinity in
> column 3, etc.   This could also be used for profile data, where you
> would have depth or pressure in the first column, followed by the
> dependent variables.
>
> We explored various clients: NcBrowse, the OpenDAP Data Connector,
> IDV, the new Environmental Data Connector, the THREDDS WCS and NetCDF
> subsetter services, and none of them seemed to have the ability to do
> this.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas?
>
> A sample of our CF compliant time series file in THREDDS is at:
> http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/thredds/tseries_catalog.html?dataset=DATAFILES/MYRTLEBEACH/7222sc-a.nc
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>