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- | ====== WDB ====== | + | ====== WDB - Weather and Water Database |
- | WDB is a database system designed | + | Welcome |
- | WDB is an open-source project licensed under [[http:// | + | **WDB** is a database system designed to store meteorological, |
+ | The WDB system consists of a database server system including a read/write interface to the database, a set of loading programs for inserting various types of MHO data into the system, and a http product generator. | ||
- | ===== Release Status | + | ===== WDB Features |
- | WDB version 0.7.2 is [[http:// | + | * **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 | ||
- | To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat | + | * **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). | ||
+ | * **Open Source** | ||
+ | * WDB is licensed under [[http:// | ||
- | ===== WDB Features ===== | ||
- | * **Decode and store meteorological forecast fields** | ||
- | * WDB has loading programs to load forecasts, analysis, etc. stored in GRIB1 format. Metadata is provided for HIRLAM fields | ||
- | * **Decode and store oceanographic fields** | + | ===== Get WDB ===== |
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+ | The latest release of WDB is version 1.0.1. | ||
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+ | You can access the WDB source code on [[http:// | ||
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+ | To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http:// | ||
- | * **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). | ||
+ | ===== Help ===== | ||
+ | The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB. | ||
- | ===== WDB Roadmap ===== | + | [[http:// |
- | See the [[developers: | ||
- | * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive) | + | ===== Development ===== |
- | * 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 | + | |
+ | 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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