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

Building Metlibs and Diana with Autotools

How to build Diana on Windows

News

2013-09-23

Diana 3.33.0

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 12.04)

C++ (g++)

Qt 4 for GUI and window handling, platform independent

Mesa3D OpenGL and native drivers for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics

SQL databases (including PostgreSQL and MySQL)

a few other Free and Open Source libraries (fonts etc.)

connections between applications by Qt QSocket

See Building Metlibs and Diana with Autotools for build instructions and information about dependencies.

Formats

In-house met.no formats

Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant), OpenDAP, Grib1&2, WDB

Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates), Ascii (simple inhouse format)

Satellite and radar images: geotiff, mitiff (tiff with geographical header), HDF5

Maps: shape, Ascii (simple inhouse format

Weather symbols: Ascii (simple inhouse format)

Documentation

Getting Started

User guide

Map format

See Triangle Map Format for clarifications.

mitiff - used for satellite and radar images

Developer Documentation

BUFR observations in Diana

References

Tasks

Current tasks (met.no):

Vertical cross-sectons

Vertical profiles

New drawing tool

Remove production database

Future tasks

Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface

More details

Developers

Code style

Contact information

Email: diana@met.no