1. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 Recent Developments at OMSZ HAWK-3 Márk Rajnai, Miklós Vörös

2. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 Main Points Hungarian Advanced WorKstation State one year ago / Milestones New features –Preview for map projection –Legend and logo on the images –Multi pane windows - ‘global macros’ –Improved streamlines and isolines –Centrally updated configuration –Automatic data update –Automatic layer order –Shared cache memory for loaded data Plans

3. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 Milestones 1998-200520062007 HAWK-3 project launch HAWK-22D NWP fields Radar Satellite Scanning Zooming Image saving SYNOP Streamlines many GUIs Users Language support Product generation Multi pane windows ‘Global macros’ Auto data refresh Shared memory … 2008

4. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 State one year ago

5. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Preview for map projection Instant preview Helps setting the right map projection

6. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Legend and logo on the images Logo of the data source Legend

7. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Multipane windows - ‘global macros’ Many kinds of data in one window Ideal soulution for “stamp maps” for EPS members and time series Arbitrary layout Time connection Possibility for special “scan pane” The layout and contents can be saved in ‘global macro’ Pane 1 Pane 2 Pane 3 Toolbar

8. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Multi pane windows - ‘global macros’

9. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Multi pane windows - ‘global macros’ Scan pane LayoutMacros

10. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Multi pane windows - ‘global macros’ Different EPS members Time series

11. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Improved streamlines and isolines More evenly placed streamlines Isolines for not only regular lat-lon grid

12. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Centrally updated configuration Where to run HAWK? One server or individual PCs? For local workstations: automatic update system –Easy administration –Same configuration everywhere PC 3 PC 1 PC 2 Server

13. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 New Features Other improvements Automatic layer order –optional –depending on the layers’ visualisation type (raster, lines, symbols, etc.) Automatic data update –arbitrary frequency Shared cache memory for loaded data –avoid redundant data loading and storing  faster and more efficient memory usage –mainly for constant data (topography, coastlines, borders, etc.) Documentation, built in User’s Guide

14. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 Short term Plans Additional data types: TEMP, AMDAR, Lightnings on map TEMP, AMDAR on Emagram Pictures as layers in the HAWK Printing (Postscript, raster)

15. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008 Thank you for your attention

16. Recent developments at the Hungarian Meteorological ServiceEGOWS 2008