Diana

Diana is a meteorological visualisation and production software developed at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute (met.no). Diana is developed for operational use at met.no, and has been used this way since spring 2000. Diana is also used extensively by researchers. It was released as open source under the GNU GPL in May 2006.

Report bugs to Bugzilla

SVN repository

News

2009-03-10

Diana 3.8.2

Download from svn

Using Filesystem Hierarchy Standard

Bugfixes

2008-06-25

Diana 3.0.7

New version of the graphical user interface, Qt4

Easier to install, the internal libraries are compiled and installed using configure

2008-02-07

Diana 2.4.0

NetCDF

Added support for fields in NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant).
Please see the online documentation.
The test dataset includes some example NetCDF files.

BUFR

Added support for observations in BUFR format with standard WMO templates

Diana features

Combined visualisation of

Fields

Satellite and radar images

Surface observations

Trajectories in isosurfaces

Weather charts

Separate viewers available for

Soundings

Vertical cross sections

Time series

Editing tools

Field modification

Drawing of fronts, weather symbols etc.

Other features

Highly customable with setup-files

Batch version for non-interactive production available

Diana depends on an IT infrastructure, including databases/filesystems for fields, observations and images. There is no acquisition or dissemination tools included.

Programming environment

Linux (We use Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian etch)

C++ (g++)

Qt4 for GUI and window handling, platform independent

Mesa3D OpenGL

MySQL databases

a few other freeware libraries (fonts etc.)

connections between applications by Qt QSocket

Formats

In-house met.no formats

Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant)

Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates)

Satellite and radar images: mitiff (tiff with geographical header)

Documentation

User guide

Map format

mitiff - used for satellite and radar images

Developer Documentation

BUFR observations in Diana

References

Tasks

Currently working at:

Profet - Field editing

NetCDF - field format

Grib - field format

Reading from dataBase WDB

HDF5 - satellite/radar images

Shape - map format

Future plans

Autotools / Debian package

Proj4

Redesign - field inteface

Developers

Code style

Contact information

Email: diana@met.no