CLIMATICA (information system for climatic data management)

CLIMATICA, is a software for management of climatic data. The software has different features like the possibility of control and validation of data, the conversion of date formats and of the units of the variables, the calculation of statistical indexes. CLIMATICA can perform management operations on climatic dataset (fusion of more datasets by rows or by columns, reduction of the dataset dimensionality with estimation of statistics), on metadata (input and modification), on variables (deletion, generation and re-calculation) and on records (search, sorting, deletion and input). There are also procedures for interpolation and reconstruction of missing data using multiple linear regression, non-linear regression, neural networks and moving statistics (moving average, etc.). CLIMATICA also includes the weather generator Climak for the estimation of climatic parameters from historical data and for the generation of meteorological variables to evaluate risks or to create climatic scenarios. The management of datasets can be made either by dialog windows or by commands, which also allows the automation of procedures. CLIMATICA presents a wide flexibility that permits to be adapted to specific requirements.