This application is a graphical user interface (GUI), designed to simplify the numerous input values for GRAL (atmospheric dispersion model) and GRAMM (non-hydrostatic mesoscale wind-field model), edit sources and obstacles, import data from shape files, analyze and display results as contour lines, visualize wind vectors, and verify the input and output of the GRAL and GRAMM model. It is also possible to visualize and classify meteorological input data (wind roses, stability or velocity classes, diurnal frequencies of wind directions, diurnal mean wind velocity).
There is also a youtube tutorial that shows and explains some basic functions of the GUI.
The application has been migrated from .NETFramework to .NET6 after the release of version 22.03 and to .NET8 for version 23.11. Since the .NETFramework is no longer developed by Microsoft, we expect the following advantages from the migration in the future:
- High dpi support
- Performance improvements
- Publishing of single files including the entire required framework
- Improvements due to future developments by Microsoft
- Native Windows-ARM support
The MonoDevelop branch contains a version of the GUI that is intended to be used with MonoDevelop for Linux (the distribution we use is Debian 11).
Windows Visual Studio 2022 or higher
Linux MonoDevelop
The current validated GUI versions for Windows and a comprehensive manual are available at the GRAL homepage
Everyone is invited to contribute to the project Contributing
The version number includes the release year and the release month, e.g. 20.01.
This project is licensed under the GPL 3.0 License - see the License file for details