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- | ====== WDB ====== | ||
- | WDB is a database system designed to store meteorological, | ||
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- | 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. | ||
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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 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:// | ||
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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:// | ||
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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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- | ===== 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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- | ~~NOTOC~~ |