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Diana: A Free Meteorological Workstation Lisbeth Bergholt, Audun Christoffersen, Helen Korsmo, Juergen Schulze
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Norwegian Meteorological Institute met.no
Diana: A free meteorological workstation
Diana — is a meteorological visualisation and
production software— is developed at the Norwegian Meteorological
Institute, met.no— has been used operationally since 2001— used by researchers — was released as open source under the GPL
licence in May 2006—cooperation with SMHI since 2006
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Diana
Visualisation• Fields• Satellite and radar
images• Surface observations• Soundings• Cross Sections• Trajectories in
isosurfaces• Forecast products
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DIANA - interfaces
• Dialogs and Quick menus (Standard and private)
• Most options/preferences and command history in a log to next session.
• Keyboard shortcuts for all functions• Multilingual dialogs• Batch version – identical code base
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Programming environment
• Linux (Red Hat Fedora Core 5), all met.no workstations
• C++ (g++)• Qt for GUI and window handling, platform
independent• Mesa3D OpenGL
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Data formats
Today: mostly met.no formats• Observation: BUFR
Future plans• Fields: NetCDF and GRIB• Image formats:HDF5, geoTiff
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Diana Demo
• Fields
• Surface observations
• Satellite and radar
• Soundings
• Cross sections
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Diana Web Map Service
• WMS- A standard for showing maps in a web browser
• Defined by Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)
• Maps can be requested from different servers
• Clients can build customized maps
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How to obtain Diana
Can be downloaded fromhttp://met.no/dianaContact:[email protected]
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SUMMARY
• Diana is developed for use in an operational forecasting environment, used extensively by researchers.
• Used for 5 years at the Norwegian Meteorological Institute
• Released as open source 2006, available for download at http://met.no/diana
• Open source version will be further developed.
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Fields
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Images
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Diana: Image mosaic
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Observations
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Diana with too much information
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Diana … some ”layers”
• h• h
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Precipitation(Plot RR>1mm, Red
RR>6mm)
Wind speed(Plot ff>5m/s, ff>10m/s)
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Vertical profiles andCross sections
Preprocessed (yet)
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Meteogram tool
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MSLP and Front Analysis