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tasks and the user can request many types of graphs directly. SOE can read APES
GUI output files, both in XML and binary format.
The CLIMA Weather Generator
CLIMA is a Windows application developed by CRA (Donatelli et al. 2009b) which
generates and estimates daily and hourly values of weather and weather-related
variables using several alternative models (Carlini et al. 2006; Donatelli et al.
2006a and 2006b; Donatelli et al. 2009). It exports data in a format readable by
APES, and custom writers can be added. CLIMA was built following the compo-
nent-oriented paradigm and it is an example of re-use of components developed for
APES. The component architecture is the same as other APES components,
hence allowing both for component extensibility autonomously by third parties
and for their re-use in custom developed applications (Fig.
4.9
). CLIMA allows for
composition of models into a composite model which is then saved as a discrete
DLL. Such DLLs can be used either for data generation within CLIMA, or sepa-
rately in a custom application.
«
<component>
»
LeafWetness
«application»
Graphic Data
Display
«component»
Data IO
«component»
EvapoTranspiration
«application»
CLIMA
«component»
AirTemperature
«component»
Climlndices
«component»
Rain
«component»
NMath
«component»
ClimParameters
«component»
Data quality
«component»
Wind
«component»
ClimTimeSeries
«component»
SolarRadiation
Fig. 4.9
CLIMA component diagram (main components shown)
