Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no), Box 43 Blindern, 0313 OSLO, NORWAY.
Contact: wdb@met.no
Website: http://wdb.met.no
WDB is a database system for storage and retrieval of weather and water observations and forecasts. It handles both gridded data (raster) and point data.
The system can be used to:
- Decode and store meteorological and oceanographic forecast fields and observations
- Load forecasts, analysis, wave and circulations models stored in GRIB1, GRIB2, and NetCDF format
- Retrieve data through the WDB Call Interface (WCI). This is an SQL function interface that isolated applications from the internal tables
WDB is open-source; licensed under GPL2 or (at your option) any later version.
You can learn more about the project (and find links to documentation and resources) here.
To submit issues and bugs, use our bug tracker.
Please refer to the file INSTALL (generated by autogen.sh) for generic installation instructions.
To run autogen.sh, you will require a full installation of autotools (automake, libtools and autoconf-archive).
WDB requires that a PostgreSQL installation is installed and available. In addition, it requires the following libraries:
- postgis (http://www.postgis.org)
- grib-api (http://www.ecmwf.eu/products/data/software/grib_api.html)
- boost (http://www.boost.org)
- log4cpp (http://log4cpp.sourceforge.net)
- proj.4 (http://proj.maptools.org)
- GNU Readline (http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html)
The following technologies are also used, if present:
- CppUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net)
- xmlto (http://www.docbook.org)
- doxygen (http://www.doxygen.org)
The configuration script should be able to locate these libraries if they are installed on your system. If the script has difficulty locating the libraries, you may assist it by explicitly specifying the directories for the configure script. For more information about this, run:
./configure --help
If the install procedure fails, please note the following:
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A postgresql database must be up and running before installation is attempted. The user running the installation script must have rights to create a new database on the DBMS.
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Installation will fail if AUTOVACUUM is not turned on (from PostgreSQL 8.3, this is the default). Please refer to the postgresql documentation for details on autovacuum and how to turn it on.
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Installation of the database will fail if you attempt to install the database twice. If you need to overwrite the old installation, you must first remove the old version of the database.
As stated in the INSTALL notes, ./configure; make; make install handles the compilation and installation of the WDB system (provided the requirements stated above are fulfilled). The following make targets may also be of interest.
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uninstall Uninstall the WDB system.
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html Generates html-based documentation for WDB utilizing docbook.
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pdf Generates documentation for WDB in PDF format utilizing docbook.
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doxygen-doc Generates developer documentation for the WDB source code using doxygen.
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check Runs the WDB unit tests.
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installcheck Runs the WDB install tests. These verify that you have a correctly functioning installation of WDB. They require that you have
successfully installed WDB on the system. -
performancecheck Runs the WDB performance tests. They require that you have a working installation of WDB.
Developer documentation is located in doc/developer/. All developer documentation is available as XML markup, using the docbook format.
User and Operations documentation is located in doc/user/. All user documentation is available as XML markup, using the docbook format.