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.

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github repository

Installing Diana from Launchpad

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 are no acquisition or dissemination tools included.

Programming environment

Linux (We use Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04)

C++ (g++)

Qt 5 for GUI and window handling, platform independent

Qt OpenGL for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics

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

connections between applications via coserver messages.

See README.md for build instructions and information about dependencies.

The test data files may be downloaded here:

diana-test-data-20201019T0800.tar.gz

diana-test-data-20200514T0800.tar.gz (superseded)

Formats

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

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

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

Maps: ESRI 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

Developers

Code style

Contact information

Email: diana@met.no