NetCDF Files

Couple ways to do netcdf files

roll your own reader

http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf-java/documentation.htm

use nasas panoploy to open and then export as labeled text file. because there are so many nulls you could clean the file by removing nulls

http://www.giss.nasa.gov/tools/panoply/

use noass weather climate toolkit.

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/wct/batch.php#Exporter

awesome for doing easy animations of the data. you can export as esrii.asc file which is awesome. unfortunately you cannot export everything to .asc file from the interface but there should be a way to batch process that task.