PmDataQueryIdeas

Required Features

• Modular
  • Data source modular
  • Processing modular
  • Output modular
• Ability to do comparisons between sets of series
• Ability to annotate graphs

Input sources

• sixmin tables
• datum files
• harmonic predictions
• neural network predictions
• salinity averages
• monthly means
• hf radar
• eta-12
• wave spectra
• other things we have yet to conceive
• gif files/backgrounds
• station attributes
• messages
• maps

Processing items

• unit conversions
• datum conversions
• time conversions
• averaging
• max/min/stdev
• differences
• other things

Output formats

• sixmin format
• XML format
• timeseries graph
• maps(?)
• columnar format
• cman
• Excel
• Matlab
• csv
• wind rose/vector plots
• 3-D (looooooong term)
• data history

Things we want to do with pmdata:

• compare two graphs on different time scales
• graph/compute differences of two series
• retrieve/display averages
• retrieve data in sixmin or hourly format
• retrieve data in Excel/Matlab compatible formats
• station maps
• station lists(?)
• Browseable graphs
• shading or notation for missing data in graphs
• animations(?)