HR: 11:45h
AN: IN32A-06    [Abstracts]
TI: An Open-source Meteorological Operational System and its Installation in Portuguese- speaking Countries
AU: * Almeida, W G
EM: gambi@cptec.inpe.br
AF: INPE / CPTEC, Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Km 39, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630-000, Brazil
AU: Ferreira, A L
EM: travezan@cptec.inpe.br
AF: INPE / CPTEC, Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Km 39, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630-000, Brazil
AU: Mendes, M V
EM: marcusvi@cptec.inpe.br
AF: INPE / CPTEC, Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Km 39, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630-000, Brazil
AU: Ribeiro, A
EM: alexandre_paq@hotmail.com
AF: INPE / CPTEC, Rodovia Presidente Dutra, Km 39, Cachoeira Paulista, SP 12630-000, Brazil
AU: Yoksas, T
EM: yoksas@unidata.ucar.edu
AF: UCAR / Unidata, P.O. 3000, Boulder, CO 80305, United States
AB: CPTEC, a division of Brazil’s INPE, has been using several open-source software packages for a variety of tasks in its Data Division. Among these tools are ones traditionally used in research and educational communities such as GrADs (Grid Analysis and Display System from the Center for Ocean-Land-Atmosphere Studies (COLA)), the Local Data Manager (LDM) and GEMPAK (from Unidata), andl operational tools such the Automatic File Distributor (AFD) that are popular among National Meteorological Services. In addition, some tools developed locally at CPTEC are also being made available as open-source packages. One package is being used to manage the data from Automatic Weather Stations that INPE operates. This system uses only open- source tools such as MySQL database, PERL scripts and Java programs for web access, and Unidata’s Internet Data Distribution (IDD) system and AFD for data delivery. All of these packages are get bundled into a low-cost and easy to install and package called the Meteorological Data Operational System. Recently, in a cooperation with the SICLIMAD project, this system has been modified for use by Portuguese- speaking countries in Africa to manage data from many Automatic Weather Stations that are being installed in these countries under SICLIMAD sponsorship. In this presentation we describe the tools included-in and and architecture-of the Meteorological Data Operational System.
DE: 0800 EDUCATION
DE: 3300 ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSES
DE: 3329 Mesoscale meteorology
DE: 3367 Theoretical modeling
DE: 9810 New fields (not classifiable under other headings)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: 2007 Joint Assembly