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.