Diana

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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.

2009-03-10

Diana 3.8.2

Download from svn
Using Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
Bugfixes

2008-06-25

Diana 3.0.7

New version of the graphical user interface, Qt4
Easier to install, the internal libraries are compiled and installed using configure

2008-02-07

Diana 2.4.0

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

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.