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-====== WDB ======+====== WDB - Weather and Water Database ======
  
-WDB is a database system designed to store **W**eather and **W**ater data (also referred to as MHO - Meteorological, Hydrological, and Oceanographic data) in a PostgreSQL database management server. The overall purpose of the system is to improve the effectiveness and quality of IT systems for MHO production. The system is intended to provide a complete real-time and archive data storage solution.+Welcome to the **WDB** project's home page.
  
-WDB is being developed to+**WDB** is a database system designed to store meteorological, hydrological and oceanographic (MHO) data in a PostgreSQL database management serverThe purpose of the **WDB** system is to improve the quality and effectiveness of IT systems for MHO production by providing a flexible and effective data storage solution for real-time and archive data. **WDB** is the backbone of [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]]; Scandinavia's largest weather site.
-  * Decode and store meteorological, hydrologicaland oceanographic observations/point forecasts, including chemical or physical data but excluding biological and environmental data. Such data is assumed to be encoded in BUFR telegrams. +
-  Decode and store meteorological forecast fields (forecasts, analysis, etc.) as well as oceanographic fields (wave and circulation models). Such data is assumed to be encoded in GRIB-fm5 or GRIB2 files. +
-  Provide a flexible retrieval interface to the database for Java, Fortran, C++, Perl and Python.+
  
-===== Current Status: =====+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.
  
-WDB is capable of decoding and storing meteorological and oceanographics forecast fields from GRIB files. It allows retrieval of time-series (points) and entire fields using an SQL-based function interface (tested with C++, but should be compatible with Java, Perl, Python and Fortran). 
  
-=====  Roadmap =====+===== WDB Features =====
  
-Current development goals:+  * **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
  
-  * Putting WDB into production in the Hindcast project (multi-terabyte forecast field archive) +  * **Flexible retrieval interface** 
-  * Creating a load-balancing and fail-over solution for the WDB system +    * The WDB Call Interface (WCI) allows the extraction of entire fields or points (time-seriesfrom the database using an SQL-based function interface. 
-  Improving the test framework and documentation +    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).
-  * Improving the performance of the overall system+
  
-===== Resources =====+  * **Open Source** 
 +    * WDB is licensed under [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html|GPL2]] or (at your option) any later version.
  
-[[https://svn.met.no/viewvc/wdbSystem/wdb/|WDB Subversion Repository]] 
  
-[[https://wdb.bugs.met.no/|WDB Bugzilla]] 
  
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/doxygen/html/|Code Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]+===== Get WDB =====
  
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/developer/html/|Developer Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]+The latest release of WDB is version 1.0.1. 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://www.yr.no|yr.no]] with version 0.7.8 at the end of February 2009. Currently, the [[http://www.yr.no|yr.no]] website is run on a backbone of WDB servers.
  
-[[http://wdb.met.no/0.6/user/html/|User Documentation (WDB 0.6rc1)]]+You can access the WDB source code on [[http://github.com/wdb|github]].
  
 +To subscribe to release information about WDB, register on Freshmeat and subscribe to [[http://freshmeat.net/projects/wdb|WDB]].
  
 +
 +===== Help =====
 +
 +The [[Mailing Lists]] should be your first stop if you have problems with WDB.
 +
 +[[http://sourceforge.net/search/?group_id=214820&type_of_search=mlists|Search the mailing list archives]] to see if your problem has been answered before. If you are unable to find a response that helps you, post your questions to the appropriate mailing list (non-subscribers can post). For questions not concerning the development of WDB, use the [[http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-users|WDB Users]] mailing list.
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 +
 +===== Development =====
 +
 +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://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=wdb-development|WDB Development]] mailing list.
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