OceanWeather

Ocean weather service for Marorka

/* The two C# scripts are the base for Marorka's weather service.

• OceanWeatherToGribDatabase for downloading and storing the data to the database.
• WebWeatherService for interacting with the Grib-NetCDF database.
• nowcastROFTS_NWWIII.py is a demo script for downloading the best estimates of current ocean weather, could be used for updating the database. */

For the python scripts: Python 3.4 was used

Modules needed:
    netCDF4
    numpy
    matplotlib
    datetime
    pylab

For the C# scripts: Cygwin shell is needed (32bit was used) Used packages for Cygwin: The default for all categories (plus extra from Devel see: http://cs.calvin.edu/curriculum/cs/112/resources/installingEclipse/cygwin/) gcc-core: C compiler gcc-g++: C++ compiler gdb: The GNU Debugger make: The GNU version of make gcc-debuginfo-4.9.2-2

CDO (https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo/wiki/Cdo)
    Building CDO with Netcdf, HDF5 and GRIB2  support.

    Download CDO from https://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo/files
    Download NetCDF from http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/netcdf/index.jsp. Use the C version.
    Download Grib API from https://software.ecmwf.int/wiki/display/GRIB/Releases
    Download Jasper from http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~frodo/jasper/#download
    Download HDF5 and zlib from ftp://ftp.unidata.ucar.edu/pub/netcdf/netcdf-4

    Create a directory that will hold the installation libs and include files.
    For this demonstration we use /opt/cdo-install (make sure that the directory is created)

    Install zlib using
    ./configure –prefix =/opt/cdo-install
     ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    Install HDF5 using
    ./configure –with-zlib=/opt/cdo-install –prefix=/opt/cdo-install CFLAGS=-fPIC
    ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    Install NetCDF using
    CPPFLAGS=-I/opt/cdo-install/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/cdo-install/lib ./configure –prefix=/opt/cdo-install CFLAGS=-fPIC
    ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    Install Jasper using
    ./configure –prefix=/opt/cdo-install  CFLAGS=-fPIC
    ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    Install grib using
    ./configure –prefix=/opt/cdo-install CFLAGS=-fPIC –with-jasper=/opt/cdo-install
    ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    Install cdo using
    ./configure –prefix=/opt/cdo-install CFLAGS=-fPIC  –with-netcdf=/opt/cdo-install –with-jasper=/opt/cdo-install –with-hdf5=/opt/cdo-install  –with-grib_api=/opt/cdo-install
    ‘make’, ‘make check’ and ‘make install’

    This should install CDO with grib, netcdf and HDF5 support. Note that the binaries are in /opt/cdo-install/bin. Add this folder to the path to make the binaries available everywhere.

    ********* Extra ********* (Not sure if needed)
    sds: Scientific DataSet library and tools
    https://sds.codeplex.com/

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Degrib
    available from NOAA at http://www.nws.noaa.gov/mdl/degrib/download.php

It is necessary to add both CDO and Degrib to the environment path