IBL Software Engineering

Technical Specifications

Category	Description
Operating system	• Servers and stand-alone systems: Linux, Solaris®, Unix • Client workstation: Linux, Microsoft® Windows®, Solaris®, Unix
Minimum system requirements	Pentium 4 1.5GHz 512MB RAM 40GB harddisk (SADIS, RETIM and/or GTS data reception)
Compliance	• WMO Manual No. 386 (Manual on GTS, incl. Attachment II) • WMO Manual No. 306 (Manual on Codes) • WMO Manual No. 485 (Manual on Global Data Processing System) • ICAO Annex 3 (incl. Amendment 73) • SADIS, SADIS2G • ISCS • RETIM, RETIM2000 • DWDSAT • EUMETCAST
Operational Meteorological Database	• WMO bulletins and reports • NWP • Spatial Graphical data • WMO data
Spatial Databases	• Global Self-consistent, Hierarchical, High-resolution Shoreline Database • GTOPO30 high-precision world-wide digital elevation model • High-precision local orography exported from GIS software
Data Formats	• Synoptic data: FM-12 SYNOP, FM-13 SHIP, FM-14 MOBIL, FM-18 BUOY, SYNOP in FM-94 BUFR • Upper-air data: FM-35 TEMP, FM-36 TEMP SHIP, FM-37 TEMP MOBIL, FM-38 TEMP DROP, FM-32 PILOT, FM-33 PILOT SHIP, FM-34 PILOT MOBIL, FM-42 AMDAR, AIREP, TEMP in FM-94 BUFR, PILOT in FM-94 BUFR, AMDAR in FM-94 BUFR • Aeronautical data: FM-15 METAR, FM-16 SPECI, FM-51 TAF, FM-42 AMDAR, AIREP • Climatological data: FM-71 CLIMAT, FM-72 CLIMAT SHIP, FM-75 CLIMAT TEMP, FM-76 CLIMAT TEMP SHIP, INTER • Model data: FM-92 GRIB (GME-DWD, LME-DWD, HRM-DWD, UK, Washington, ECMWF, Arpege/Aladin, ETA, MM5-NCAR, RAMS, WAVE (ECMWF, UK, GKSS, ...) and other) • Satellite imagery: FM-92 GRIB (various systems), PIF & XPIF (VCS), HDF5 &l MEOS HDF5 (Kongsberg; European MSG NWCSAF Nowcasting project), GeoTIFF (SeaSpace TeraScan; various systems), other third-party receivers for MeteoSat 2nd Generation (MSG), MeteoSat, NOAA, FengYun, GOES, NWCSAF, MPEF, etc. • Radar imagery: FM-94 BUFR (WMO standard, OPERA standard, EEC/DRS, Gematronik), FM-92 GRIB (EEC/DRS, various systems), GeoTIFF (various systems), SRD2 (archives), other third-party radars EEC/DRS, Gematronik, Gamic, CERAD, etc. • Lightning detection systems: FM-82 SFLOC, EUCLID, SAFIR, other third-party • Significant weather: FM-94 BUFR (Bracknell & Washington), SatRep (ZAMG) • Nowcasting: HDF5 (European MSG NWCSAF Nowcasting project), MPEF, PIF & XPIF (VCS), GRIB (various systems), CSV (various systems), other third-party • FAX T4 charts
Connection Types	• GTS or Switching System • NWP model result files • SADIS, SADIS2G (X.25 reception, UDP reception, FTP backup) • RETIM, RETIM2000 • DWDSAT • MSG EUMETCAST • all kinds TCP/IP, asynchronous, file-exchange based and FTP channels
Main Functions	• display, generating and printing of surface charts, upper-air charts, weather charts, model outputs, remote-sensing imagery • overlaying of any kind of meterological data and features • display of all NWP products, unlimited number of models and parameters • Mathematical Kernel for extensive model computation and evaluation • combining different models in overlays or even computations between models • extensible satellite and radar support (including nowcasting) with composing, coloring, reprojecting and multi-channel combining of images • producing own weather charts with interactive user-friendly editor • preparing forecasts and forecast charts • horizontal and vertical crossections • various thermodiagrams and hodogram from observations and models • nowcasting data integration • NWP field modification • report correction • objective analysis with model-initialization and numerical quality-control • Presentation Templates allowing on-map visualization of custom bulletins • unification of BUFR/CREX and alphanumeric reports • extended customizable shapefile orography with unlimited precision and content • direct access to received reports and messages • extensive chart and table output including weather monitoring for both observations and models
Output Formats	• Bitmap formats: JPG, T4, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, XPM • Scalable Vector Graphics SVG • Adobe® Portable Document Format PDF
Output Delivery	• e-mail (automatic and manual) • printer including large-scale plotters(automatic and manual) • GTS WMO messages • File-delivery to specified folders • FAX (automatic and manual)