At the same time, it strives to be simpler and easier to use
than existing meteorological software packages such as GEMPAK
and IDV.
+
+ Currently AWeather only displays data provided by the United
+ States National Weather Service.
</p>
<hr />
<li>Level-II archives</li>
<li>Conus NEXRAD imagery</li>
<li>Volume display of dBZ iso surfaces</li>
+ <li>Storm based and county based<br/>
+ warning/watch/advisory displays</li>
</ul></li>
<li>Virtual Globe base rendering<ul>
<li>Including terrain, satellite, and map imagery</li>
without any license fees or royalties.</p>
<% } %>
+<% void print_manual(void) { %>
+ <div class="asciidoc">
+ <% print_file("manual.inc"); %>
+ </div>
+<% } %>
+
<% void print_news(void) { %>
<!-- It's not really spring anymore :/ -->
<!-- <p class="quote">Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.</p> -->
<dl class="news">
+ <dt>2011-11-25</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.6.1 released: <ul>
+ <li>Added a Radar menu to quickly jump to a NEXRAD/WSR-88D site</li>
+ <li>Fixed a bunch of 64-bit bugs</li>
+ </ul>
+ </dd>
+
+ <dt>2011-11-03</dt>
+ <dd>
+ AWeather 0.6 released: <ul>
+ <li>Added "Alerts" plugin using the
+ <a href="http://alerts.weather.gov/">NWS CAP</a> feed</li>
+ <li>Updated GTK+ libraries for Windows</li>
+ <li>Behind the scenes, mouse support in Grits
+ has been much improved</li>
+ </ul>
+ This release was a little bit faster than previous releases.
+ Hopefully additional improvements to the alerts plugin
+ can be made incrementally during the 0.x.x releases.
+ </dd>
+
<dt>2011-09-12</dt>
<dd>
AWeather 0.5.2 released: <ul>
<% print_screen("iso"); %>
Close up showing a 52.5 dBZ isosurface
</li>
+ <li>
+ <% print_screen("alert"); %>
+ Current severe weather alerts for the CONUS
+ </li>
</ul>
<% } %>
<dt>Source code</dt>
<dd>
<a href="files/aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">aweather-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
- <a href="../grits/grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz">grits-<%= VERSION %>.tar.gz</a>,
+ <a href="../grits/grits-<%= VERSION_GRITS %>.tar.gz">grits-<%= VERSION_GRITS %>.tar.gz</a>,
<a href="files/rsl-1.40.tar.gz">rsl-1.40.tar.gz</a>
</dd>
<dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Debian sid</dd>
<dt>Ubuntu</dt>
- <dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Ubuntu Oneiric</dd>
+ <dd><span class="code">apt-get install aweather</span> from Ubuntu Oneiric,
+ or the <a href="<%= UBUNTU_PPA %>">AWeather PPA</a></dd>
<!--
(Arch packages still have bugs)
<dt>Arch</dt>
<li>Data caching</li>
<li>Automatic updating</li>
</ul></li>
+ <li>Warning/Watch/Advisory display</li>
<li>Surface and map overlays</li>
<li>Terrain rendering</li>
</ul>
<div style="float: left; margin-left: 20px;">
- <% print_screen("meso"); %>
+ <% print_screen("stormbased"); %>
+ <div style="text-align: center; margin-right: 25px;">
+ AWeather showing storm based warnings<br />
+ on top of Level-II radar imagery
+ </div>
</div>
<a href="download" class="download" style="float: right;">
<span>Download</span>