1 <% #include "html.h" %>
3 <% /* Global functions */ %>
4 <% void print_header(void) { %>
5 Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
9 <% void print_nav(const page_t *page, const page_t *cur) { %>
10 <% const char *class = page == cur ? " class=\"cur\"" : ""; %>
11 <a href="<%= page->link %>"<%= class %>><%= page->name %></a>
14 <% void print_screen(char *name) { %>
15 <a href="screens/<%= name %>.png">
16 <img src="screens/<%= name %>_s.jpg" alt="<%= name %>" class="screen" />
20 <% void print_page(const page_t *page) { %>
21 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
22 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
23 <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
25 <title>AWeather<% if (page->name) printf(" - %s", page->name); %></title>
26 <link rel="shortcut icon" href="images/aweather.ico" />
27 <link href="data/global.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
28 <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=9" />
29 <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="application/xhtml+xml; charset=UTF-8" />
30 <meta name="keywords" content="weather, radar, nexrad, level-ii, virtual globe, grits, rsl" >
31 <meta name="description" content="AWeather is a free advanced real-time weather data viewer
32 that supports Level-II NEXRAD files, polarimetric radars, and volume rendering." >
36 <a href="."><img class="logo" src="images/logo.png" alt="AWeather" /></a>
37 <h1 class="title"><a href=".">AWeather</a></h1>
39 <% for (int i = 0; header[i].link; i++) print_nav(&header[i], page); %>
40 <span class="sep"></span>
41 <% for (int i = 0; other[i].link; i++) print_nav(&other[i], page); %>
46 <p class="msg">This site is currently under construction.</p>
47 <p class="msg" style="font-size:8pt; font-weight:normal;">
48 If I had an animated GIF of a guy with a shovel, I would put it here.</p>
51 <div style="clear:both;"></div>
54 Copyright © 2011 Andy Spencer
55 <% for (int i = 0; footer[i].link; i++) { %>
56 | <% print_nav(&footer[i], page); %>
63 <% /* Normal Pages */ %>
64 <% void print_about(void) { %>
66 AWeather is a free/open source application which has been
67 designed to integrate and visualize high-quality meteorological
68 data using an interactive Virtual Globe interface suitable for
69 a wide range of users including weather enthusiasts, academics,
72 It is designed to provide more information than is typically
73 available from weather widgets and simple desktop applications.
74 At the same time, it strives to be simpler and easier to use
75 than existing meteorological software packages such as GEMPAK
80 <p>AWeather is free software licensed under the terms of the
81 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html">GNU GPL</a>.
82 As such, it can be used by any individuals or organizations
83 without any license fees or royalties.</p>
89 <li>High quality data sources<ul>
90 <li>Level-II archives</li>
91 <li>Conus NEXRAD imagery</li>
92 <li>Volume display of dBZ iso surfaces</li>
94 <li>Virtual Globe base rendering<ul>
95 <li>Including terrain, satellite, and map imagery</li>
97 <li>Real-time and offline mode</li>
98 <li>Auto-updating</li>
99 <li>Fullscreen mode</li>
105 <li>Additional data sources<ul>
106 <li>Watch/warning/advisory boxes</li>
107 <li>Surface data (temp., humidity, etc)</li>
109 <li>Derived NEXRAD data<ul>
110 <li>Storm relative motion</li>
111 <li>Compost reflective</li>
114 <li>Vertical cross sections</li>
120 <% void print_news(void) { %>
121 <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p>
125 AWeather 0.5 released: <ul>
126 <li>Support for volume rendering (isosurfaces)</li>
127 <li>Automatically update</li>
128 <li>Fullscreen mode</li>
129 <li>Dropped GtkGLExt</li>
132 <li>Added additional radars</li>
133 <li>Fixed lots of bugs</li>
134 <li>General code cleanup</li>
135 <li>Available from <a href="files/">files</a> directory
136 and <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">git</a></li>
138 <b>Update:</b> AWeather 0.5 is also compatible with the
139 newly released RSL v1.41</li>
143 <dd>Started work on this new website. Lots of progress in AWeather as well:<ul>
144 <li>Merged support for isosurfaces to the main branch (Finally!)</li>
145 <li>Added an option to automatically refresh after a timeout</li>
146 <li>New fullscreen mode</li>
150 <dd>AWeather 0.4.1:<ul>
151 <li>Win32 fixes and improved debug support</li>
152 <li>Fix bug with daylight savings time</li>
153 <li>Function to clear old cache entries</li>
157 <dd>AWeather 0.4:<ul>
158 <li>Conus radar images</li>
159 <li>Multiple radars support</li>
160 <li>Gentoo, Ubuntu, MS Windows and source packages are available</li>
164 <dd>AWeather 0.3.0 released, based on libgis but still rather
168 <dd>AWeather 0.2.3 (maintenance release).<br/>
169 Added a Application menu entry and a few build/runtime fixes.</dd>
172 <dd>The source repository has been migrated to Git. A lot of
173 progress is being made on libgis, which is now able to display
174 a virtual globe using data from NASA servers.</dd>
176 <p class="note">See also: AWeather's <a href="/git/?p=proj/aweather">gitweb</a></p>
179 <% void print_screenshots(void) { %>
181 AWeather provides a consistent user interface that allows the
182 user to zoom in from a high level view of the entire Earth down
183 to regional and microscale views.
188 <% print_screen("synop"); %>
189 High level view using grits
192 <% print_screen("region"); %>
193 Regional view of a storm front
196 <% print_screen("meso"); %>
197 Mesoscale view of a tornadic system
200 <% print_screen("iso"); %>
201 Close up showing a 52.5 dBZ isosurface
206 <% void print_download(void) { %>
207 <h2>Stable releases</h2>
209 While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,<br />
210 these are as close to stable as you can get until then
213 <li class="linux"><dl class="inline">
216 <a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
217 <a href="../grits/grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
218 <a href="files/rsl-1.40.tar.gz">rsl-1.40.tar.gz</a>
222 <dd>Emerge <span class="code">sci-geosciences/aweather</span> from the sunrise overlay</dd>
225 <dd>Packaging in progress, check back soon</dd>
227 <li class="windows"><dl class="inline">
229 <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>-gtk.exe</a></dd>
232 <dd><a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe">aweather-<%= VERSION_WIN32 %>.exe</a>
233 (Use this if you know what you're doing)</dd>
235 <li class="macos" style="padding-top: .8em; padding-bottom: .8em"><dl class="inline">
237 <dd>Coming soon (hopefully)</dd>
241 <h2>Unstable releases</h2>
242 <p class="note">Pre-releases, betas, and other hazardous software</p>
243 <div style="margin-left: 30px;">
244 <p>Check out the <a href="files">files</a> directory for any potential updates</p>
245 <p>Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows packages</p>
248 <h2>Development code</h2>
250 Development code is available from Git, and gitweb
251 (<a href="/git/?p=proj/aweather">AWeather</a>,
252 <a href="/git/?p=proj/grits">Grits</a>,
253 <a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">RSL</a>)
255 <div style="margin-left: 30px;">
256 <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather</div>
257 <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/grits</div>
258 <div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/~spenceal/rsl</div>
262 <% void print_development(void) { %>
263 <!-- Open source mumbo jumbo.. -->
265 <p class="note" style="clear: both;">
266 The AWeather <a href="/code/projects/aweather/wiki">development wiki</a>
267 is the main resource for development material.
270 <h2>Bug report and feature requests</h2>
271 <div style="margin-left: 30px;">
272 <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues">List of current issues</a></p>
273 <p><a href="/code/projects/aweather/issues/new">Add a new issue</a></p>
276 <h2>How to contribute?</h2>
278 <li>Locate or host Meteorological and Geospatial data feeds</li>
279 <li>Maintain a Mac OS, Windows, or Linux installer</li>
280 <li>Test AWeather and submit bug reports</li>
281 <li>Make better logo!</li>
284 <h2>Architecture Overview</h2>
286 <li>Built on top of GObject and GTK+</li>
287 <li>Uses the <a href="grits">Grits</a> "Virtual Globe" library<ul>
288 <li>Handles most of the graphics work using OpenGL for rendering</li>
289 <li>Provides some other generic functionality, such as data access</li>
290 <li>Also provides the plugins API used by AWeather</li>
292 <li>AWeather itself is a front-end for grits along with a
293 bundle of weather related plugins</li>
296 <h2>Building AWeather</h2>
297 <p class="note">See the <a href="code/projects/aweather/wiki/Install">install</a>
298 wiki page for more details</p>
300 <li>AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, RSL, among other things</li>
301 <li>Currently building and running AWeather will require the
302 exact same version of Grits to be installed<br />
303 (This may change in the near future as the software stabilizes)</li>
307 <% void print_grits(void) { %>
308 <p>Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather, but
309 can be used by other programs as well.</p>
310 <p>It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google Earth,
311 NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed as a library
312 that is used by other programs, such as AWeather, rather than
313 providing a user interface that is used directly.</p>
317 <% print_screen("grits"); %>
318 Grits without any plugins
322 <% print_screen("plugins"); %>
323 Satellite and Environment plugins
326 <% print_screen("terrain"); %>
327 Elevation plugin showing a mountain
332 <% void print_rsl(void) { %>
333 <h2>Radar Software Library</h2>
334 AWeather has at times needed a custom version of the
335 <a href="http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/">TRMM Radar Software Library</a>
336 for accessing Level-II radar files. However, most of the changes have
337 since been incorporated into RSL Version 1.41, which can also be used
338 with AWeather. Some remaining changes exist though and are mostly
339 related to code organization and fixing compiler warnings.
343 <h3>NASA/TRMM version</h3>
345 <li><a href="http://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/trmm_gv/software/rsl/">TRMM RSL Website</a></li>
346 <li><a href="ftp://trmm-fc.gsfc.nasa.gov/software/rsl-v1.41.tar.gz">rsl-v1.41.tar.gz</a></li>
350 <h3>AWeather's version</h3>
352 <li><a href="files/rsl-1.40.tar.gz">rsl-1.40.tar.gz</a></li>
353 <li><a href="/git/?p=~spenceal/rsl">Gitweb</a></li>
354 <li><div class="code">git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/~spenceal/rsl</div></li>
359 <% /* Footer Pages */ %>
360 <% void print_contact(void) { %>
362 <p class="note">Questions? Comments? Trouble compiling AWeather?</p>
363 <dl class="inline small">
364 <dt>Email</dt><dd><a href="mailto:andy753421@gmail.com">Andy Spencer</a></dd>
365 <dt>IRC</dt> <dd>#rhlug@irc.freenode.net</dd>
369 <% /* Special Pages */ %>
370 <% void print_index(void) { %>
372 AWeather is a free advanced weather data viewer designed for weather enthusiasts.
373 AWeather is not a simple weather widget/dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast.
374 It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a
375 variety of weather data in simple unified interface;
376 see the <a href="about">about</a> page for more details.
379 <ul style="float: left;">
380 <li>Detailed Level-II NEXRAD radar<ul>
381 <li>3D volume rendering</li>
382 <li>Dual-pole support</li>
384 <li>Online and offline modes<ul>
385 <li>Data caching</li>
386 <li>Automatic updating</li>
388 <li>Surface and map overlays</li>
389 <li>Terrain rendering</li>
391 <div style="float: left; margin-left: 20px;">
392 <% print_screen("meso"); %>
394 <a href="download" class="download" style="float: right;">
395 <span>Download</span>
396 <span>AWeather <%= VERSION %></span>
397 <img src="images/dl-arrow.png" alt="Download" />
401 <% void print_notfound(void) { %>
402 <h1>404 - Not found</h1>