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WEATHERINFO

A WEB-BASED WEATHER DATA CAPTURE SYSTEM

Jeffrey J. Steinera,*, Toshimi Minourab and Wen Xiongb

a USDA-ARS, Natl. Forage Seed Prod. Res. Cent., 3450 SW Campus Way, Corvallis, OR 97331
b School of Electrical Eng. and Comput. Sci., Oregon State Univ., Corvallis, OR 97331



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Fig. 1. Architecture of the WeatherInfo System to capture data from U.S. Weather Service web pages. Circled numbers indicate each of the five system components described in the text.

 


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Fig. 2. Schema of the WeatherData relational database. The attributes in bold font are the primary keys, and the underscored attributes are foreign keys. The symbols 1 and * indicate "one" and "many" in a one-to-many relationship type, respectively.

 




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Fig. 3. Examples of C# programming code used to implement the features described in the text.

 


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Fig. 4. Examples of the graphic (top) and table (bottom) web pages used for retrieving and displaying data for the specified geographic location and time period. Top, middle, and bottom broken lines in the graphic output represent high, average, and low daily temperatures.

 


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Fig. 5. The interface for the WeatherInfo Web Service.

 





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