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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 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.
- Report bugs to Bugzilla
News
2013-09-23
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 Ubuntu 12.04)
- C++ (g++)
- Qt 4 for GUI and window handling, platform independent
- Mesa3D OpenGL and native drivers for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
- SQL databases (including PostgreSQL and MySQL)
- a few other Free and Open Source libraries (fonts etc.)
- connections between applications by Qt QSocket
See Building Metlibs and Diana with Autotools for build instructions and information about dependencies.
Formats
- In-house met.no formats
- Field format: NetCDF (CF-1.1 compliant), OpenDAP, Grib1&2, WDB
- Observation format: BUFR (rdb and WMO standard templates), Ascii (simple inhouse format)
- Satellite and radar images: geotiff, mitiff (tiff with geographical header), HDF5
- Maps: shape, Ascii (simple inhouse format
- Weather symbols: Ascii (simple inhouse format)
Documentation
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- See Triangle Map Format for clarifications.
- mitiff - used for satellite and radar images
Tasks
Current tasks
- Vertical cross-sectons
- Vertical profiles
- New drawing tool
- Remove production database
Future tasks
- Satellite/Radar interface - use field interface
Developers
Contact information
Email: diana@met.no