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.

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 12.04 and 14.04)
C++ (g++)
Qt 4 for GUI and window handling, platform independent
Mesa3D OpenGL and native drivers for hardware-accelerated 2D graphics
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.

The batch version of Diana can be configured to work with a customised version of Qt 4 for use on systems without displays. See Batch Diana on Headless Systems for information about this configuration and instructions for building it.

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)