Hey Colin, My name is Cameron and I am glad you want to know more about the project. The project has spun out of an internal JPL project called The Regional Climate Model Evaluation System (RCMES). Details on that project can be found at the JPL Project website [1]. That site contains links to publications and more data about the internal JPL folks.
We are really early in the incubation process and working to extract and refactor a lot of the code. The idea is that doing this will enable us to create a small core library that can used to support higher level capabilities. Installation (there are a couple options): If you just want to demo the evaluation app JPL built, then you can use a Virtual Machine from JPL. Download from here: [2] It is an ova files, so any VM software should be able to run it. If you want to use an installer the team has been working on you can use the easy-rcmet tool that uses buildout. Instructions are on the wiki here [3]. Since you are on a Windows machine I am 99.9% sure easy-rcmet won't cut it. One option is to download and install Continuum Analytics 'Anaconda' Python distro from here [4]. You will also need to download and install NetCDF4 [5] and Basemap Toolkit for Matplotlib [6]. To get up and playing with a demo the fastest the JPL VM is your best bet. You can install Oracle's Virtual Box for free and it will run the ova files easily. If you hit any snags or problems let us know and we will be more than happy to help. Cheers, Cameron Goodale 1 - http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/ 2 - http://rcmes.jpl.nasa.gov/training/downloads 3 - https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/CLIMATE/Easy-RCMET 4 - http://continuum.io/downloads 5 - https://code.google.com/p/netcdf4-python/ 6 - https://sourceforge.net/projects/matplotlib/files/matplotlib-toolkits/ On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 12:43 PM, Talbert, Colin <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm new to this project but curious to explore it's capabilities. > > I looked around the apache site but didn't see much beyond the source code. > Before investing too much time I'd like to look over some papers, > documentation, or presentations that describe the project. Where could I > find these materials. > > Next I would like to install the package to play with it. Are there any > instructions for installing it? I'm using Windows 7 and the Python 2.7 > installation that comes as part of VisTrails (or possibly the Enthought > Python Distribution or ???). > > Finally are there some working examples I could try out? > > Thanks, > Colin > > Colin Talbert > GIS Analyst and Developer > US Geological Survey > > [email protected] > > USGS Fort Collins Science Center > 2150 Centre Ave. Bldg. C > Fort Collins, CO 80526 > (970) 226-9425 > > USGS North Central Climate Science Center > (970) 492-4283 > > Work schedule: > Monday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) > Tuesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (NC CSC) > Wednesday - 7:00 - 3:00 (FORT) > Thursday - 10:00 - 6:00 (NC CSC) > Friday - 7:00 - 5:30 (FORT) >
