Integrated Software Development Environment: Data Consolidation Tool and development framework

 

Author

Krista Gaustad — Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Category

Infrastructure & Outreach

Description

This poster describes functionality and benefits of ARM’s Integrated Software Development Environment (ISDE) 1.0. In addition to automating the retrieval and storage of the data from and to netCDF files, this first version of the libraries widely available to the ARM user community also supports unit, data type, and coordinate dimension transformations, thus eliminating the need for most preprocessing tasks. Coordinate dimension transformations can be used to map variables’ coordinate dimensions to static values, to the coordinate dimensions of another datastream, or to the smooth data. This first release includes also the Data Consolidation Tool which is an application that performs any retrieval process defined in ARM’s Process Configuration Manager graphical interface, allowing data users to quickly construct netCDF files that meet their particular research needs. A code generation template is available to facilitate the development efforts of users who need to develop their own analysis modules and not simply transform or consolidate existing ARM data products.