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.

2010-11-23

Diana 3.23.1

Diana is now available as debian pakcage

2010-04-14

Diana 3.19.1

2010-02-01

Diana 3.17.4

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 Ubuntu 8.04 and Debian etch)
C++ (g++)
Qt4 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)
Satellite and radar images: mitiff (tiff with geographical header)

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

Current tasks (met.no):

Redesign - field inteface

Future tasks

Redesign - field inteface
Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface
Shape
- New dialog - select colours, linetypes, elements on/off
- Maps, observations, weather objects
Observations - synop plot