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The following documents reflect CSS-Wx's usage, interface specifications, and constituent parts.

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

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.

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

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

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.