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 operationally since spring 2000. Diana is also used extensively by researchers. It was released as open source under the GP Llicense in May 2006.

• Report bugs to Bugzilla

Next release: medio february 2008

Next release will include:

• Field format: NetCDF CF standard
  • Limited number of projections
  • No ensemble prediction systems (EPS) support
• Observation format: BUFR with support of standard WMO templates

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.

• Linux (We use Fedora Core 5 on all met.no workstations)
• C++ (g++)
• Qt for GUI and window handling, platform independent
• Mesa3D OpenGL
• MySQL databases
• a few other freeware libraries (fonts etc.)
• connections between applications by Qt QSocket

• In-house met.no formats
• observation format: BUFR

Latest release

SVN repository

• BUFR observations in Diana
• User guide
• Documentation
• References

• Autotools
• Debian packages
• Qt4

• Proj4
• Bdiana without X-server
• Redesign - field reading
• NetCDF
• Grib
• Profet - Field editing
• WMS - get capabilities
• Porting bdiana jobs from debian woody to debian sarge

Email: diana@met.no