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WSR-88D Common Operations and Development Environment (CODE)
 
 

 

The WSR-88D Common Operations and
Development Environment Public Package


CODE B11r1.12


This is the public version of CODE for WSR-88D Build 11. It is based upon the ORPG Build 11 source code (release 1.12 March 2009).

Build 11 CODE can be a source of assistance to external users of Level 2 data, which is in the message 31 format beginning with Build 10. For more information about WSR-88D Build 10 changes, read file SuperRes88D_Change_Summary_v7_final-1.pdf.

This particular software package pertains to software developed for the NWS Weather Surveillance Radar-1988 Doppler (WSR-88D), also known as the Next Generation Weather Radar (NEXRAD). In particular, this software package pertains to the Open System Radar Product Generator (ORPG) module of the WSR-88D, and to an application development support package termed the Common Operations and Development Environment (CODE).

Certain components of the ORPG software are proprietary. These components are not included in this publicly available software package. Click here for more details.......

Contents

This package contains an archived file of the Public Edition of CODE B11r1.12. The archived file pub_code_b11r1_12.tar contains:
  • Source code for ORPG Build 11 (Rel. 1.12, March 2009) [NEW]
  • CODE Guide
    • Vol 1 - Setting Up the Development Environment 1.29 [NEW]
    • Vol 2 - The ORPG Application Development Guide 1.28 [NEW]
    • Vol 3 - WSR-88D Algorithm Programming Guide 1.23 [NEW]
    • Vol 4 - The CODE Utility Guide 1.28 [NEW]
  • Source code for CODE software
    • Sample Algorithms version 1.21 [NEW]
    • WSR-88D Specific Development Utilities
      • CODEview Text (CVT) 4.3.2 and 4.4.1* [NEW]
      • CODEview Graphics (CVG) 8.6 and 9.0* [NEW]
      • Additional Utilities

    • *Updates to utilities included with Build 11 ORPG

PDF Documentation

For further information, a portion of the documents are available in PDF format. The primary purpose for these documents is printing and some of the links do not work. You can view the PDF Pages here.

Downloading and Installing CODE

Read the System Requirements and the CODE Disclaimer before installing CODE.

Find out the CODE Changes since your last CODE update.

Download the pub_code_b11r1_12.tar (68 MB) file now.

The archive file pub_code_b11r1_12.tar contains the Public Edition of WSR-88D CODE Build 11 Release 1.12 (May 2009). This archive should be extracted directly onto a RedHat Enterprise 5 Workstation upon which the CODE environment will be installed.

  1. Simply place the archive in a directory and extract with the command:
    tar xvf pub_code_b11r1_12.tar
    the contents are extracted in a sub-directory pub_code_b11r1_12.

  2. You can follow the Concise Installation Instructions to install CODE.

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