Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2007 Recent Developments at OMSZ...

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Recent Developments at OMSZHAWK-3Mark Rajnai

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Main Points

Hungarian Advanced WorKstation • State one year ago• New features

– GUIs– language support– new data and visualisation types– new operations on grid fields– others... (users, profiles, more options)

• Plans

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

State one year ago

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New Features

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

New graphical interfaces

as Text

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesLanguage support

• Built-in texts

(with Qt’s translator)

• Meteorological terms

(with own translator ‘there and back’)

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew data and visualisation type

• Observations (SYNOP)– Colour settings

– Filters

>20°C

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew data and visualisation type

• streamlines – emphasised windy area

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

• Interpolation (Currently biliniear for regular grids, inverse distance, triangle, nearest point)

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

• Example for using interpolation: difference of two fields, eg. two models or forecast vs. analysis

T(ALHU) - T(ECMWF)

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

• Example for using interpolation: radar composition

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

• Gradient calculation (from regular grid)

• Finite Difference Method

• corrected ΔλΔφ

Δλ• Example: terrain shadow

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

• Gradient calculation (from regular grid)

• Example: temperature gradient

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

New FeaturesOther expansions

• Users– own macros, colour settings

– profile for scan/draw settings

– write protection with password

• Looping

• Time synchronised windows

• Automatic resolution map background

• Product generation mode

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

StatisticsEvolution of the source

Length of files Total length

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Short term PlansTest version expected at end of summer

• Preview for map projection

• Legend box

• Automatic data refresh

• Automatic layer order

• Enhanced window layout, ‘global macros’

• Shared cache memory

• Centrally updated configuration

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

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Thank you for your attention

EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service