A video tutorial on how to use OPeNDAP to access data is now available on the PO.DAAC youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOKkLtXE0w
OPeNDAP enables remote datasets to be accessed through familiar data analysis and visualization packages, just as if they resided locally on the user's machine. OPeNDAP handles transport, translation and subsetting of data residing in most Earth science data formats.