Finnish Meteorological Institute publishes software as open source code
The Finnish Meteorological Institute has a variety of software that is used in the production, processing and distribution of weather and environment data. The Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI) is publishing software that is used in the production, processing and distribution of weather and environment data.
The FMI's open source code is intended to support research projects, international collaboration, development cooperation and business in Finland. Potential users and developers include other meteorological institutes, companies operating in the field, and private developers. The extent of the published software will be significant by international standards
As a rule, FMI's software is published using the MIT licence, which sets very few restrictions to how the software is used. The MIT licence permits use of the source code also as a part of closed source software, as long as the original licence is provided along with the software. However, the licence of the software to be published will be considered on a case by case basis with the possible collaboration partners.
GitHub is used for source code management. Please see our account fmidev: https://github.com/fmidev
Roadmap
FMI has identified about 30 different software. The decision to publish software depends, among other things, on the possibility to separate the software as an independent entity and its potential benefit to the user and developer community.
Already analysed software is listed below. More software will be added to the list as they are analysed or new projects are started.
| Software Name | Description | Where | When |
|---|---|---|---|
| SmartMet Server | High-capacity and high-availability data and product server for MetOcean data | https://github.com/fmidev/smartmet-server | Open |
| SmartMet Workstation | Tool for visualizing and editing meteorological data | TBA | |
| SmartMet Alert | Tool for creating weather warnings | TBA | |
| HIMAN | Post-processing suite for meteorological data | https://github.com/fmidev/HIMAN | Open |
| PyTroll | Set of tools for the reading, interpretation, and writing of weather satellite data. Project started by SMHI and DMI. | http://www.pytroll.org/ | Open |
| SILAM | Global-to-meso-scale dispersion model | http://silam.fmi.fi/ | Open |
| Rack | Command-line program for processing weather radar data | https://github.com/fmidev/rack | Open |
| FMI HPC tools and space weather models | HPC tools and space weather models | https://github.com/fmihpc | Open |
| MetOLib | Javascript libraries and example applications for FMI Open Data | https://github.com/fmidev/metolib | Open |
| SmartMet Web | SmartMet Web Workstation | https://github.com/fmidev/metweb | Open |