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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
News
2008-02-07
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 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
Formats
- In-house met.no formats
- Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant)
- Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates)
Documentation
- mitiff - used for satellite and radar images
Tasks
Common to several projects
- Autotools
- Debian packages
- Qt4
Diana specific tasks
- Proj4
- Bdiana without X-server
- Redesign - field reading
- NetCDF
- Grib
- Profet - Field editing
- WMS - get capabilities
- New Significant Weather Chart
- Porting bdiana jobs from debian woody to debian sarge
Contact information
Email: diana@met.no