D3D Publications

Software Release

D3D Version 1.2 software is being made available to selected NWS WFO, Universities and others through a CD ROM and tar files via the web.
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It is recommended that when first installing this application that you obtain the D3D CD. To do this send an email to d3d.gsd@noaa.gov (see below) along with your shipping address. The D3D CD will promptly be shipped to you along with a confirmation email the day it is shipped.

The D3D CD contains:

the D3D application (16 MB)
a sample AWIPS localization, only including the configuration files necessary to tun D3D (16 MB)
an interesting CONUS-scale case dataset from 3-5 May 1999 (558 MB)
installation documentation, i.e. README, Installation Guide and User's Guide (9 MB)
sample images and all D3D papers and web based presentations (52 MB)
Note: Unless you are US National Weather Service personnel this code will be of no use to you.

The D3D CD is self contained and is to be run on PC/Linux Red Hat 6.2.X and 7.X operating systems.

*Software*	*Request CD*	*Size*
D3D CD	d3d.gsd@noaa.gov	650 MB

Once you receive the D3D CD, insert it into your CD drive. If the system auto mounts CDs you are ready to continue. Otherwise, if your system does not auto mount, type mount /mnt/cdrom in a terminal window to continue. Prior to removing the D3D CD from the CD drive, type umount /mnt/cdrom (note: if system responds with device is busy, then change your current working directory to one other than those found on the D3D CD).

To run the application type /mnt/cdrom/d3d/d3d_demo/app/app-d3d

Feel free to change directories (cd) to /mnt/cdrom/d3d and become familiar with the application and its directory structure. When you are comfortable with the application and are ready to install it on you system get help from your system administrator and follow the D3D Installation Guide found on this site and on the D3D CD at /mnt/cdrom/d3d/docs/d3d_install_guide.

D3D can be obtained by downloading the following series of tar files. NOTE: To upgrade your existing D3D application with the lastest version all you need is the application tar file, as the other two tar files are static.

The D3D tar files contain:

the D3D application (16 MB uncompressed), and PDF installation documentation (3 MB uncompressed)
a sample AWIPS localization, only including the configuration files necessary to tun D3D (16 MB uncompressed)
an interesting CONUS-scale ETA dataset from 12Z 3 May 1999 (53 MB uncompressed)
Note: Unless you are US National Weather Service personnel this code will be of no use to you.

*Software*	*Tar File Contents*	*Download*	*Size*
d3d/d3d_demo	d3d_app.txt	d3d_app.tar.gz	~8.5 MB
d3d/awips/data	d3d_awips.txt	d3d_awips.tar.gz	~3.2 MB
d3d/case	d3d_case.txt	d3d_case.tar.gz	~18.3 MB

Comments, questions or problems should be directed to d3d.gsd@noaa.gov

Last updated: Thu Dec 26 2002