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EGOWS 2007Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological Service

Recent Developments at OMSZHAWK-3Mark Rajnai


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


State one year ago


New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting

• Scan and Draw options


New Features

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting


New graphical interfaces

as Text


New FeaturesNew graphical interfaces

• toolbar

GUI for:

• ‘Tables’

• ‘Layers’

• Colour Tables

• Time selecting



New FeaturesLanguage support

• Built-in texts

(with Qt’s translator)

• Meteorological terms

(with own translator ‘there and back’)


New FeaturesNew data and visualisation type

• Observations (SYNOP)– Colour settings

– Filters

>20°C


New FeaturesNew data and visualisation type

• streamlines – emphasised windy area


New FeaturesNew operations on grid fields

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



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

T(ALHU) - T(ECMWF)



• Example for using interpolation: radar composition



• Gradient calculation (from regular grid)

• Finite Difference Method

• corrected ΔλΔφ

Δλ• Example: terrain shadow



• Gradient calculation (from regular grid)

• Example: temperature gradient


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


StatisticsEvolution of the source

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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


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