AirT

AirT is a component containing routines to generate long-term series of air temperature values using existing daily or monthly minimum and maximum temperature records. Alternative approaches are implemented for generating daily values of maximum and minimum air temperature. Air temperature data in the form of daily maximum and minimum air temperature are converted to hourly temperatures assuming a sinusoidal interpolation function between the maximum and the minimum daily temperatures. The dew-point temperature, that is the temperature to which the air needs to be cooled to make the air saturated, is also estimated from maximum and minimum air temperatures.

The component implements the test of pre-conditions and post-conditions for each of the models provided, allowing an input on screen, TXT or XML file; custom output drivers can also be developed. Moreover, data sets used to perform unit tests on each of the models made available is also provided as part of this documentation.

The component can be freely used and distributed by modellers and developers in their own applications, if the application contains either a dedicated menu item or a dedicated button calling the Info() method of the component, and links to the original help file. This method displays information about the component and a button which activates the help of the component (examples of how to do this are shown in the sample applications provided to illustrate the use of the component). The component design allows for extensions by the users that can add easily their own models. Sample clients are provided inclusive of source code to demonstrate how to add models (C# version), and to build a Win .NET application (C# version). A sample web service and a sample web application are available on line (http://www.sipeaa.it/tools) as further examples of possible use of the component.

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Installation files include the documentation files listed on the right An updated version will be released in 2008 (NET v 2.0) AirT_install.zip .NET, v 1.1, August 2005 (6,940 KB)

CRA.clima.airT_help.zip Help file (882 KB) (advanced draft) CRA.clima.airT_NDoc.zip Code documentation (239 KB) ReleaseNotes.pdf Release notes (43 KB)