We would like to thank all ncWMS users for providing important feedback, suggestions and code contributions to the project. In particular we would like to thank John Caron, Ethan Davis and Marcos Hermida (all of UCAR Unidata) and Pauline Mak (of the Australian Ocean Data Network) for all their work on integrating ncWMS with the THREDDS Data Server.
We are grateful to Jane Lewis for helpful comments on this manuscript. We gratefully acknowledge financial support from the Technology Strategy Board (DEWS project), the European Commission (projects MERSEA, MyOcean and MyOcean2) and the UK Natural Environment Research Council (project SHAVER).