huggingface / huggingface/datasets

Adding support for netCDF (*.nc) files

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Description

### Feature request

netCDF (*.nc) is a file format for storing multidimensional scientific data, which is used by packages like `xarray` (labelled multi-dimensional arrays in Python). It would be nice to have native support for netCDF in `datasets`.

### Motivation

When uploading *.nc files onto Huggingface Hub through the `datasets` API, I would like to be able to preview the dataset without converting it to another format.

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