AWeather is a free/open source application which has been
designed to integrate and visualize high-quality meteorological
data using an interactive Virtual Globe interface suitable for
a wide range of users including weather enthusiasts, academics,
and professionals.
It is designed to provide more information than is typically
available from weather widgets and simple desktop applications.
At the same time, it strives to be simpler and easier to use
than existing meteorological software packages such as GEMPAK
and IDV.
Features
High quality data sources
(Level-II archive, etc)
3D Volume browser
Storm motion animations (todo)
API for algorithms
(vortex/hail signatures, rain-rate, etc)
(todo)
Started work on this new website. Lots of progress in AWeather as well:
Merged support for isosurfaces to the main branch (Finally!)
Added an option to automatically refresh after a timeout
New fullscreen mode
2010-05-17
AWeather 0.4.1:
Win32 fixes and improved debug support
Fix bug with daylight savings time
Function to clear old cache entries
2010-05-14
AWeather 0.4:
Conus radar images
Multiple radars support
Gentoo, Ubuntu, MS Windows and source packages are available
2009-11-09
AWeather 0.3.0 released, based on libgis but still rather
buggy.
2009-10-24
AWeather 0.2.3 (maintenance release).
Added a Application menu entry and a few build/runtime fixes.
2009-09-02
The source repository has been migrated to Git. A lot of
progress is being made on libgis, which is now able to display
a virtual globe using data from NASA servers.
AWeather provides a consistent user interface that allows the
user to zoom in from a high level view of the entire Earth down
to regional and microscale views.
<% print_screen("synop"); %>
High level view using grits
<% print_screen("region"); %>
Regional view of a storm front
<% print_screen("meso"); %>
Mesoscale view of a tornadic system
<% print_screen("iso"); %>
Close up showing a 52.5 dBZ isosurface
<% } %>
<% void print_download(void) { %>
Stable releases
While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,
these are as close to stable as you can get until then
AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, RSL, among other things
Currently building and running AWeather will require the
exact same version of Grits to be installed
(This may change in the near future as the software stabilizes)
<% } %>
<% void print_grits(void) { %>
Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather, but
can be used by other programs as well.
It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google Earth,
NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed as a library
that is used by other programs, such as AWeather, rather than
providing a user interface that is used directly.
<% print_screen("grits"); %>
Grits without any plugins
<% print_screen("plugins"); %>
Satellite and Environment plugins
<% print_screen("terrain"); %>
Elevation plugin showing a mountain
AWeather is designed to be an advanced weather program which is
designed to be used by weather enthusiasts. AWeather is not
another weather dockapp that displays a pre-computed forecast.
It is designed to be an easy to use program that integrates a
variety of weather data in simple unified interface; see
about page for more details.