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- | ====== WDB ====== | ||
- | WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, | ||
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- | ===== WDB Features ===== | ||
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- | * **Decode and store meteorological and oceanographic forecast fields** | ||
- | * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, wave and circulations models stored in GRIB1 and FELT format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM fields | ||
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- | * **Flexible retrieval interface** | ||
- | * The WDB Call Interface (WCI) allows the extraction of entire fields or points (time-series) from the database using an SQL-based function interface. | ||
- | * WCI is compatible with C++; it should be usable in C, Java, Perl, Python, and Fortran as well (however, these interfaces are not yet tested). | ||
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- | * **Open Source** | ||
- | * WDB is licensed under [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Get WDB ===== | ||
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- | The latest release of WDB is version 0.8.0. WDB has been in limited usage as a forecast archive since version 0.6.0 released in March 2008. WDB entered full production usage on [[http:// | ||
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- | ^ WDB Core ^ | ||
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- | ^ WDB Loaderbase | ||
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- | ^ WDB Gribload | ||
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- | Note: Version 0.8.0 introduces interface changes to WDB that are incompatible with 0.7.x. Further interface changes are to be expected in the next few versions, before we stabilize WDB at version 0.9.0. | ||
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- | To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Help ===== | ||
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- | The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB. | ||
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- | [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== Development ===== | ||
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- | WDB is an open-source project; we welcome contributions to the code and we will help you get more involved, if you want to be. Use the [[developers]] section on the left, and post your questions, ideas, and suggestions to the [[http:// | ||
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- | ===== WDB Roadmap ===== | ||
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- | See the [[developers: | ||
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- | * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive) | ||
- | * Improving the performance of the overall system; but in particular the extraction of forecast points from fields in time series | ||
- | * Improving the test framework and documentation | ||
- | * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system | ||
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- | ~~NOTOC~~ |