Recent Developments at OMSZ HAWK-3

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Recent Developments at OMSZHAWK-3

Márk Rajnai, Miklós Vörös

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Main PointsHungarian Advanced WorKstation

• State one year ago / Milestones• New features

– Preview for map projection– Legend and logo on the images– Multi pane windows - ‘global macros’– Improved streamlines and isolines– Centrally updated configuration– Automatic data update– Automatic layer order– Shared cache memory for loaded data

• Plans

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Milestones

1998- 2005 2006 2007

HAWK-3project launch

HAWK-2 2D NWP fieldsRadar

SatelliteScanningZooming

Image saving

SYNOPStreamlinesmany GUIs

UsersLanguage supportProduct generation

Multi pane windows‘Global macros’Auto data refreshShared memory

…

2008

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

State one year ago

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesPreview for map projection

Instant preview

Helps setting the right map projection

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesLegend and logo on the images

Logo of the data source

Legend

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesMultipane windows - ‘global macros’

• Many kinds of data in one window

• Ideal soulution for “stamp maps” forEPS members and time series

• Arbitrary layout

• Time connection

• Possibility for special “scan pane”

• The layout and contents can be saved in ‘global macro’

Pane1

Pane 2

Pane 3

Toolbar

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesMulti pane windows - ‘global macros’

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesMulti pane windows - ‘global macros’

Scan pane

Layout Macros

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesMulti pane windows - ‘global macros’

Different EPS members

Time series

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesImproved streamlines and isolines

More evenly placed streamlines

Isolines for not only regular lat-lon grid

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesCentrally updated configuration

Where to run HAWK? One server or individual PCs?

For local workstations:

automatic update system

–Easy administration

–Same configuration everywhere

PC 3

PC 1

PC 2

Server

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New FeaturesOther improvements

• Automatic layer order– optional

– depending on the layers’ visualisation type (raster, lines, symbols, etc.)

• Automatic data update– arbitrary frequency

• Shared cache memory for loaded data– avoid redundant data loading and storing faster and more efficient

memory usage

– mainly for constant data (topography, coastlines, borders, etc.)

• Documentation, built in User’s Guide

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Short term Plans

• Additional data types: TEMP, AMDAR, Lightnings on map

• TEMP, AMDAR on Emagram• Pictures as layers in the HAWK• Printing (Postscript, raster)

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Thank you for your attention

EGOWS 2008Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service