NOAA_Rain_Station
Table Of Contents
[[#1. Document]]
[[#2. Vision Summary]]
[[#3. System Architecture]]
[[#4. External Dependencies]]
[[#5. Memos and Design Notes]]
[[#6. Known Issues]]
[[#7. Model Specific Information]]
1. Document
Created By: Melissa Conner
Created On: 11/13/2014
2. Vision Summary
This project that will retrieve all available rain-stations and the station data from NOAA rainfall web-service.
3. System Architecture
First Stage
The worker role will retrieve all available the rain-stations and store all rain stations in Table Storage. We will use the same names as NOAA to simplify the table.
We will use Azure Cloud Storage
Table Storage.
The Partition Key will be the 6 digit Station name.
The Row Key will be the 4 letter Station name.
Second Stage
Blob Storage.
Each Station will be retrieved year by year using the 3240 format in the blob.
We will start with 2001 - 2013 but we need to be able to specify the year range.
We will need to have a spatial Search for the rain stations within a specified range. Sri thinks that the NOAA Extent will work it looks for a rain station in a given rectangle.
We are going to get the rectangle by dropping a number or two off of the position Lat-Long.
4. External Dependencies
Explains all external requirements for running this project.
5. Memos and Design Notes
Any Memos E-mails or Notes on the design of the project. Generally Includes pictures of hand Drawn diagrams, Links to Memos, and Information from important E-mails.
6. Known Issues
This sections states Bugs and Issues that we have already looked into and for some reason or another we cannot fix at this time.
7. Model Specific Information
Many of our projects have multiple clients or networks. This is where we put information about a specif network. It may be a functionality or a but that only exist in that one network. It may also be information that you need to know about that network. For example: If we need to use a specific cloud storage account for the network we might place that information here.