Earth System Monitor: A Guide to NOAA's Data and Information ServicesNOAA Data and Information Management Program Office, 1994 |
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Page 6 - Dynamic binding (also known as late binding) means that the code associated with a given procedure call is not known until the time of the call at run-time. It is associated with polymorphism and inheritance. A function call associated with a polymorphic reference depends on the dynamic type of that reference. Consider the procedure "draw
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Page 11 - ORDER allows users to flag one or more items on the search results list for ordering. Each item of 5 MB or less can be electronically delivered at no cost to the user.
Page 2 - NODC fulfills three major functions for the GTSPP: 1. Data communications support. The Internet is used daily to transmit and receive data and project information. Real-time data are relayed from the NOAA National Weather Service and the Navy Fleet Numerical Oceanography Center to Canada's Marine Environmental Data Service (MEDS).
Page 3 - The second system applies tests to subsurface temperature and salinity data, setting flags to reflect test results.
Page 2 - Right now around the globe measurements of ocean temperature and salinity (TS) are being taken by shipboard observers or automated instruments.
Page 3 - Results of their scientific analyses are fed back into the . GTSPP database to help improve data quality.
Page 6 - A message can be sent to an object whose class is not known — all the programmer needs is the library and knowledge of what the message does.