Please read the following before submitting the request:
Who is a valid user of the free version of WDSS-II?
- Students pursuing a degree at an accredited university who need
to use this software for their research.
- Educators in their classroom and laboratories. (If you will get
funding for creating new courses, please consider supporting our work).
- Employees of non-profit institutions involved in research.
When you write proposals that will make use of WDSS-II, please
budget some funding for us to continue to create algorithms and
visualization tools! Please contact us so that we can discuss an
appropriate level of funding.
What can valid users do with this software?
- Conduct research studies.
- Build new algorithms using the WDSS-II API.
- Visualize data sets.
If you design a new algorithm using the WDSS-II API, we want to hear
about it!
What can you not do with this software?
- Run it operationally.
- Distribute weather warnings or make weather forecasts or
decisions based on this software.
- Run it real-time.
- Redistribute the software.
- Make commercial use of the software.
If you do not see your potential use of WDSS-II in the above lists,
please contact us. Don't assume it's okay to just do it These
restrictions are in place because WDSS-II is licensed for real-time operational
use to private companies by the University of Oklahoma.
Referencing WDSS-II in publications
If you use the WDSS-II software for research, please reference:
Lakshmanan,
V., T. Smith, G. J. Stumpf, and K. Hondl, 2007: The
warning decision support system - integrated information (WDSS-II). Weather
and Forecasting, 22, No. 3, 592-608.
Please also see the more
complete list of papers,
including papers for the individual algorithms.
WDSS-II Download Request
Please contact
Kiel Ortega for the research/evaluation version
of WDSS-II, or authorization extension files for current WDSS-II users.