The following documents reflect CSS-Wx's usage, interface specifications, and constituent parts.
Design Documents
| CSS-Wx White Paper |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.0 | 04/03/2009 | .docm | | A White Paper detailing the purpose, fundamental structure, and overall design. |
| WCSRI Architecture and Design |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.0 | 01/15/2010 | .doc | NCAR/RAL | |
| WFSRI Architecture and Design |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.1 | 04/22/2010 | .doc | MIT/LL, with NCAR/RAL | Updated to fix small numbering and formatting issues. |
| 2.0 | 01/15/2010 | .doc | MIT/LL, with NCAR/RAL | |
Requirements Documents
These documents describe the required functionality and present a sampling of hypothetical situations (use cases) that should be applicable/solvable by the final product.
| IT CONOPS (Use Cases) |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 3.2 | 08/20/2008 | .doc | NCAR/RAL, MIT/LL | |
| 3.1 | 05/20/2008 | .pdf | NCAR/RAL, MIT/LL | |
| Weather Functional Requirements for NextGen Air Traffic Management |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 0.1 | 01/18/2008 | .doc | JPDO | The overall requirements for the 4-D Wx Data Cube, as defined by the JPDO. |
Interface Documents
The following documents reflect CSS-Wx's interface specifications and constituent parts.
| WCS Interface Document |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.1 | 02/15/2011 | .doc | NCAR/RAL | A document that describes the interface elements of the WCS specification as it is used in the system |
| 2.0 | 12/21/2010 | .doc | NCAR/RAL | |
| 1.0 | 05/07/2010 | .doc | NCAR/RAL | |
| WFS Interface Document |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.0 | 01/21/2011 | .doc | MIT/LL | A document that describes the interface elements of the WFS specification as it is used in the system |
Guidelines
These documents outline the development guidelines the CSS-Wx Program's member organizations must follow when building the system.
| Metadata Guidelines |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| Revision 2 | 04/02/2010 | .pdf | MIT/LL | |
| Final | 04/24/2009 | .pdf | MIT/LL | |
| Metadata Profile |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| Final | 04/11/2012 | .pdf | MIT/LL | |
Background
The listed documents provide background information on system concepts, data formats, and the like.
| Data Model Mapping Related to Encoding of WCS Coverage in netCDF-CF |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| Final | 06/04/2006 | .doc | | This paper discusses a series of issues that arise from the differences between the ISO 'Coverage' data model and the NetCDF data model. |
| Efficient XML Report |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 2.0 | 02/28/2013 | .doc | NCAR | A report analyzing the compactness and CPU cost and alternatives for XML in the weather domain. Topic: Efficient/Binary XML. |
| 1.0 | 03/15/2010 | .doc | NCAR | A report analyzing the compactness cost and alternatives for XML and WXXM usage in the weather domain. Topic: Efficient/Binary XML. |
| Gridded Data Compression Report |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 1.0 | 06/03/2011 | .pdf | NCAR | A report analyzing the compactness tradeoffs of GRIB2 and netCDF 4 on a variety of datasets in the weather domain. |
| WCSRI Performance Report |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 1.0 | 06/03/2011 | .docx | NCAR | A report examining the performance of the WCSRI. |
| Wavelet-based Compression of Gridded Data |
| Version | Date | Download | Author(s) | Notes |
| 1.0 | 06/03/2011 | .pdf | NCAR | A report examining the compression performance of wavelet-based techniques on gridded floating point data. |