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 General Public License (GPL) in May 2006.

Report bugs to Bugzilla

SVN repository web view

SVN repository

How to build Diana on Windows

News

2010-11-23

Diana 3.23.1

Diana is now available as debian pakcage

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

Current tasks (met.no):

Redesign - field inteface

Future tasks

Redesign - field inteface

Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface

Shape

New dialog - select colours, linetypes, elements on/off

Maps, observations, weather objects

Observations - synop plot

More details

Finnished tasks

Projections - using proj4

Autotools / Debian package

Developers

Code style

Contact information

Email: diana@met.no