-
-
+
+
<% } %>
<% /* Normal Pages */ %>
@@ -70,51 +79,166 @@ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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.
+
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)
-
Other? (open to suggestions)
-
+
+
Working
+
+
High quality data sources
+
Level-II archives
+
Conus NEXRAD imagery
+
Volume display of dBZ iso surfaces
+
Storm based and county based
+ warning/watch/advisory displays
Additional data sources (watch/warning boxes, surface data, etc)
-
Animation
-
+
+
Licencing
+
AWeather is free software licensed under the terms of the
+ GNU GPL.
+ As such, it can be used by any individuals or organizations
+ without any license fees or royalties.
<% } %>
<% void print_news(void) { %>
-
Now that it's spring again, progress on AWeather is continuing.
+
+
+
+
2012-12-11
+
+ New Website!
+
The Rose-Hulman Linux Users Group website
+ has been unavailable for some time so we have
+ moved on to a new and hopefully more stable server.
+ A mirror of the old RHLUG website is available at
+ http://rhlug.pileus.org/
+
Due to the move, some of the site
+ infrastructure such as bug tracer and the
+ development wiki are unavailable
+
These issues should be resolved shortly
+
+ New Mailing list!
+
There is now an official mailing list for AWeather and other pileus.org projects as well:
+ <%= MAIL_LIST %>
+
An astoundingly empty archive is also available:
+ <%= MAIL_ARCH %>
Behind the scenes, mouse support in Grits
+ has been much improved
+
+ 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.
+
+ and git
+ Update: AWeather 0.5 is also compatible with the
+ newly released RSL v1.41
2011-06-13
@@ -161,23 +287,29 @@ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
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.
+ to regional and mesoscale views.
+
<% print_screen("synop"); %>
- High level view using grits
+ High level view using Grits
<% print_screen("region"); %>
- Regional view of a storm front
+ Regional view over the midwest
<% print_screen("meso"); %>
@@ -187,36 +319,65 @@ Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
<% print_screen("iso"); %>
Close up showing a 52.5 dBZ isosurface
+
+ <% print_screen("alert"); %>
+ Current severe weather alerts for the CONUS
+
<% } %>
<% void print_download(void) { %>
Stable releases
- While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,
+ While AWeather won't be considered stable until version 1.0,
these are as close to stable as you can get until then
Check out the files directory for any potential updates
-
Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows packages
+
Pre-releases are labeled with a -p0 and are mainly built for testing the Windows and Mac packages
Development code
- Development code is available from Git, and gitweb
- (AWeather,
- Grits,
- RSL)
+ Development code is available from Git
+ (and gitweb:
+ AWeather,
+ Grits,
+ RSL)
-
git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/aweather
-
git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/proj/grits
-
git clone git://lug.rose-hulman.edu/~spenceal/rsl
+
git clone <%= GIT_AWEATHER %>
+
git clone <%= GIT_GRITS %>
+
git clone <%= GIT_RSL %>
+
+
+ Repositories for packaging and this website
+ (and gitweb:
+ Packaging,
+ Website)
+
AWeather has direct dependencies on Grits, RSL, among other things
-
Currently building and running AWeather will require the
+
Currently building and running AWeather requires the
exact same version of Grits to be installed
(This may change in the near future as the software stabilizes)
+
The Downloads page has information
+ on accessing the AWeather source code repositories
<% } %>
<% 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.
-
+
+ Grits is a Virtual Globe library developed along side AWeather,
+ but desigend to be usable by other program as well.
+
+ It is differentiated from other Virtual Globes such as Google
+ Earth, NASA World Wind, and KDE Marble in that it is developed
+ primairily as a library that is used by other programs, such as
+ AWeather, rather than providing it's own user interface.
+
+ AWeather has at times needed a custom version of the
+ TRMM Radar Software Library
+ for accessing Level-II radar files. However, most of the changes have
+ since been incorporated into RSL Version 1.41, which can also be used
+ with AWeather. Some remaining changes exist though and are mostly
+ related to code organization and compiler warnings.
+
+
- 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.
+ AWeather is a free real-time weather data viewer designed for weather enthusiasts.
+ AWeather is not a weather widget/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
- features for more details.
+ variety of meteorological data in simple unified interface;
+ see the about page for more details.
+ 
-
+