Climsoft Version 4.2.3

Climsoft Version 4.2.3, Climate Data Management System is available in English, French and Portuguese, giving flexibility to Users to switch to their language of preference.

Following are new and improved features in Climsoft Version 4.2.3:

1. Improvement of the Data Entry forms to allow searching of records by Station names in addition to search by Stations’ Ids when the View command button is selected.

2. Climsoft supervisor user can now view data entered by Climsoft operator users in both form view and sheet view.

3. Improvement of the external data import module;

   • An added option to manually transfer Automatic Weather Station (AWS) data from files to observationfinal table without first going through observationinitial table. Data with QC errors is automatically saved in a file in the QC folder. Element limits configured in metadata are used in the QC checks.
   • Where data being imported is in different time settings from that in the database e.g. UTC vs Local time a box has been provided to enter the number of hours required for the adjustment in order to have uniform observation time in the database.

4. Improvement of the AWS Real Time Processing Sites Setting dialog to allow sites be individually configured to:

   • Allow adjustment where observations time settings (UTC vs Local time) are different from that in Climsoft database.
   • Provide UTC hour difference for GTS messages (BUFR) encoding.

5. Daily precipitation totals from AWS and hourly data can now be computed for the period 06-06UTC in addition to the period 00-23H whichever suits the user. The 06-06UTC totals product is available under the Special Products.

6. Improvement on stations metadata import dialog; existing stations metadata can now be updated with new information from a list of stations in a text file. If there are new stations in the file they will be added in the database while the existing ones will be updated with the new details.

*Note: Here is the link to access a comprehensive documentation to help you install and use Climsoft software

Climsoft Version 4.2.2

Climsoft Version 4.2.2 has been released. Version 4.2.2 is available in multiple languages: English, French and Portuguese, enabling Users to switch to their language of preference.
Features added in this version include:

• Processing of hydrological data,
• Computation of wind speed from wind run (wind totalizer) data,
• Data Entry Form for entering hourly data for the whole month, sequencing by hours, and
• Output products for Climate Station system (new synergy forecasting system).

*Note: Here is the link to access a comprehensive documentation to help you install and use Climsoft software

Climsoft Version 4.2.0

Select the link below to download and install Climsoft Version 4.2, a multi-language version.
Following functionalities were enhanced in this version:

• In addition to English, Climsoft is now available in French and Portuguese; At the login dialog, Users will be able to select the language of their preference to use either English, French or Portuguese.
• WIGOS Station Identifications (WSI) for both archiving of climate data and encoding of GTS BUFR messages; and
• Monthly summaries data product based on seasonal periods.

*Note: Follow the link to access a comprehensive documentation to help you install and use Climsoft software

Climsoft Version 4.1.12

Climsoft Version 4.1.12 has been released.
Following functionalities were enhanced in this new released version:

• Enhancement of data import dialog for importing NOAA GTS data into Climsoft
• Enhancement of data import dialog for importing data in text files (different formats) into Climsoft : station and element selector were added on text file import dialog to ease the search and selection process.

*Note: Follow the link to access a comprehensive documentation to help you install and use Climsoft software

Climsoft Version 4.1.11

Climsoft Version 4.1.11 has been released.
Following functionalities were enhanced in this new released version:

• Enhancement of the Update observations dialogue to enable search,view and sorting and filtering of data in the observation initial and final tables
• Improvement of Data entry forms,including customization of form_daily1 data entry form;
• Improvement of the external data import dialogue to enable importation of upper air data observations into Climsoft.
  *Note: Follow the link to access a comprehensive documentation to help you install and use Climsoft software

Climsoft Version 4.1.0

Important

See above the Installer and User Manual for Climsoft Version 4. We strongly advise you to install the latest setup (executable) for bit 32 on Computers with 32 bit Operating System (OS) and the installer for bit 64 on Computers with 64 bit Operating System. If you have already installed the previous released version of Climsoft version 4 (e.g. V4.1),you don't need to install the full version again but rather to upgrade to the latest version (e.g. V4.1.1),in this case, you are advised to download and install the upgrade version on your system.

Capabilities of Climsoft Version 4

Capabilities of Climsoft Version 4, Climate Data Management System (CDMS) that make it suitable for use in many National Meteorological and Hydrological Services (NMHS) are:

1. Sustainability
Climsoft is a free climate Data Management System (CDMS) built on the freely available open source tools such as Visual Studio, MySQL/MARIADB making it less costly to implement and maintain. After the initial training, users are able to continuously support Climsoft operations on their own;

2. Scalability
Climsoft can be implemented in a standalone computer at the observatory as well as in the server at the centralized database at the NMHS headquarters. It therefore allows connectivity between the observatories and the remote database server thereby facilitating data digitization right from the source. It works very well in a multi-user environment allowing many users to access the centralized climate database concurrently for different operations;

3. User Management, Operations Monitoring and Quality of Data
Secure security access levels is guaranteed. It is easy to monitor data entered by different users, set a target for users to achieve and evaluate user work performance through Climsoft. It has got an elaborate key entry and post Key entry Quality Control (QC) functions;

4. Ingestion of data from Automatic Weather Station (AWS)
Climsoft automatically ingests data from Automatic Weather Stations (AWSs) on real time basis thereby making those observations to be available for weather forecasting purposes;

5. Data files Import and Export
Data files of different formats can be easily imported into Climsoft. It can exports data in formats ready for use by many climate applications that include RCLIMDEX, CPT, GEOCLIM, INSTAT, ENACTS, etc.;

6. Message Encoding and Forwarding to Global Telecommunication System (GTS)
Climsoft encodes observations into weather messages according the WMO standards of Table Driven Code Forms (TDCF). It is capable of forwarding those encoded messages to the WMO GTS network;

7. Management of images of paper records (paper archives) in support of Data Rescue (DARE)
Images of paper records can be stores and retrieved on the fly to facilitate immediate checking of key in data against the handwritten observation paper records;

8. Climate Products
Climsoft produces the standard WMO climate products from the archived and quality controlled data. It has got an improved way of presenting climate data products. Climsoft data inventory function is good and advanced (Ability to inventory available and missing data in both spreadsheet and graphical format);

9. Linkage to R - Instat Climate Analysis Tool
Climsoft interrogate very well with R - Instat to produce variety of climate summaries and reports (including wind rose, time series plots, trend analysis graphs, calculations of the start/ends of rain, length of the season, spell length (dry/wet), Data Inventory graphs, spatial distribution maps, Examine trend and quantify the evidence of climate change (global warming), rainfall variability,etc.);

10. Technical Support and Software Maintenance
It is very easy and cheaper to get technical support, software maintenance and training.

See also:User Feedback Stages