= Cdo.rb - Use Ruby to access the power of CDO

This package contains the module Cdo, which implements a ruby style access to
the Climate Data operators CDO. CDO is a command line tool for processing
gridded data. Its main focus if climate data, but it can by used for other
purposes to. It accepts input formats GRIB1, GRIB2, NetCDF and several Fortran
binary formats.

== Installation

=== Gem Installation

Download and installCdo with the following:

   gem install cdo

=== Requirements

Cdo.rb requires a working CDO binary, but has not special requirement to Ruby

== Usage

=== Run operators

* File information
    
    Cdo.infov(:input => ifile)
    Cdo.showlevels(:input => ifile)

* Operators with regular output files

    Cdo.timmin(:input => ifile,:output => ofile)

* Operators with options

    Cdo.remap([gridfile,weightfile],:input => ifile, :output => ofile)

* Set global CDO options

   Cdo.copy(:input => ifile, :output => ofile,:options => "-f nc4")

More examples can be found in test/cdo-examples.rb.

=== Tempfile helpers

Cdo.rb includes a simple tempfile wrapperm, which make live easier, when write your own scripts with Cdo.rb,m

== Support, Issues, Bugs, ...

Please use the forum or ticket system of CDOs official web page: http://code.zmaw.de/projects/cdo

== License

Cdo.rb makes use of the GPLv2D License, see COPYING

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= Other stuff

Author::   Ralf Mueller <stark.dreamdetective@gmail.com>
Requires:: CDO version 1.5.x
License::  Copyright 2011-2012 by Ralf Mueller
           Released under GPLv2 license.  See the COPYING
           file included in the distribution.
