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
• SVN repository

Diana 2.4.0

Added support for fields in NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant).
Please see the online documentation.
The test dataset includes some example NetCDF files.

• Added support for observations in BUFR format with 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
• Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant)
• Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates)

• User guide
• Documentation
• mitiff - used for satellite and radar images
• BUFR observations in Diana
• References

• Autotools
• Debian packages
• Qt4

• 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

Email: diana@met.no