The Climate Mapper was developed for SERVIR-Viz (WorldWind spinoff) to give project designers access to historical weather data as well as projections of climate change. The data are available for an area of about ½ degree ½ degree, or roughly 50km x 50km near the equator. When you click on the map, the tool will pull data for the grid cell surrounding the point where you clicked and display it as a line graph. The data can be exported to a spreadsheet application.

The Climate Mapper grew out of USAID’s effort to develop its Climate Change Adaptation Guidance Manual. The Climate Mapper now serves the entire globe, excluding the extreme polar regions. The data are available for an area of ½ degree ½ degree, or roughly 50km x 50km in the tropics. The Climate Mapper presents outputs of three of the models used in the IPCC’s 4th Assessment Report: the National Center for Atmospheric Research Community Climate System Model (NCAR CCSM); the European Centre/Hamburg Model (ECHAM); and the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory Coupled Model (GFDL-CM21).

Quick features are:

- View maps and data for observed or modelled future projections of various climate themes (temperature, precipitation, runoff, soil moisture, and climate moisture index)

- Graph component is interactive (uses zedgraph), and data can be exported into CSV format

- Map data is available for the entire globe.

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nigel from the WorldWind forum has posted a screen shot of a Naval Game he has been developing.  He didn’t post much in the way of details, other than he has asked to open source the .net code since they have moved to WWJava for the base code.

What_Nick has been in a coding mood and has been working on WorldWind’s KML support by adding in the time feature of KML.  This will be a nice addition to the KML Importer.. though I am still waiting for multiple KML file support

Two interesting blog posts about releasing some of the .Net libraries as Open Source licensed code.

We’ll begin by offering the source code (with source file comments included) for the .NET Base Class Libraries (System, System.IO, System.Collections, System.Configuration, System.Threading, System.Net, System.Security, System.Runtime, System.Text, etc), ASP.NET (System.Web), Windows Forms (System.Windows.Forms), ADO.NET (System.Data), XML (System.Xml), and WPF (System.Windows). We’ll then be adding more libraries in the months ahead (including WCF, Workflow, and LINQ). The source code will be released under the Microsoft Reference License (MS-RL).

You’ll be able to download the .NET Framework source libraries via a standalone install (allowing you to use any text editor to browse it locally). We will also provide integrated debugging support of it within VS 2008.

This release falls under Microsoft’s Shared Source Initiative, which encompasses a spectrum of source code offerings, complementing the company’s other activities around sharing source code. This is another example of Microsoft’s continued commitment to increasing transparency and addressing developer needs.

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