Downsizer

The Downsizer is a GUI that retrieves daily climate and gage data.

Climate data is from the NWS COOP network and the NRCS SNOTEL network. The COOP data is updated regularly. We have to update the SNOTEL data manually, so SNOTEL is usually only current through the last water year.

Gage data is from the USGS National Water Information System (NWIS)  

Please view the PowerPoint presentation below for directions on how to use the Downsizer. Any questions should be sent to MoWS Help.

PowerPoint presentation describing use of Downsizer

Important Note: This software will only work on a USGS machine. We had problems with machines outside the USGS domain getting access to our database due to the extensive firewall network. If you are not USGS but are interested in this tool, please email MoWS Help and we will try to set you up with a stand-alone version of the software.

Releases

Change Log

2.1.0.745

2.0.1.361

• Fixed the broken "Add..." buttons in the Fine Station Select sub-window.

2.0.0.357

However, there were some new features added:

• Station metadata is now displayed in tables instead of lists (see the Fine ID Select window).
• The new tables allow more station metadata than just ID and name to be available: latitude, longitude, and (for climate staitons) elevation are now displayed as well. Period of record may be added in the future.
• The new tables can be sorted on any metadata type in either ascending or descending order by clicking on a column's name. By default, they are sorted on ID in ascending order.
• A progress dialog now pops up any time you perform an operation that retrieves station metadata from the server. It shows the status of the operation and allows you to cancel it if you wish.

1.0.1.11

• Fixed a bug that was causing not all of the necessary .class files to be included in the Client release.

1.0.0.1

• The summary file has been expanded to include the name, latitude, longitude, and elevation of every station it summarizes. The overall format is also more clean and consistent. Period of record may be added in the future.
• The versioning policy was changed. Previous versions were numbered according to the date that they were built, e.g. v2008.01.22. Future versions will be numbered according to a more traditional format: major.minor.bug.build.
  • The major version number is incremented when a major feature is added that significantly changes or enchances the functionality. These are likely to be large-scale re-writes of the code base.
  • The minor version number is incremented when a lesser feature is added.
  • The bug version number is incremented when a bug fix is made, but no new features are added.
  • The build version number is incremented automatically every time that Downsizer is compiled. Unlike the other version numbers, it is not reset to 0 when a more significant version number is incremented.
  Downsizer is always stable: there is no public development branch, and each new version supersedes all earlier versions. Versioning began being tracked in this manner on 2008/02/04 (the release date of 1.0.0.1).

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