MICRO-MAGICS: METEOROLOGICAL GRAPHICS ON MICROCOMPUTERS Gilberto Camara Neto Elisa Nishimura André Battaiola Carlos Ho Shih Ning Nandamudi L. Vijaykumar Luis Massa INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH BRAZ IL Jens Daabeck EUROPEAN CENTRE FOR MEDIUM-RANGE WEATHER FORECASTS ABSTRACT The MICROMAGICS 1.0 software system is described. This software is used for plotting and animation of meteorological charts in the micro-computer environment, and includes a user-friendly interface. RESUMO Este trabalho apresenta o produto MicroMAGICS 1. o, utilizado para plotagem e animação de cartas meteorológicas, que inclui uma interface amigável. 1. INTRODUCTION The European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) has developed a rneteorological application software system called MAGICS/GKS (Meteorological Applications Graphics Integrated Colour Systern). The MAGICS/GKS system consists of a set of FORTRAN-callable subroutines which makes use of the GKS standard to assure computer and device independence. At ECMWF, it runs on CRAY X-MP, CYBER 800 and VAX 8350 series cornputers (Daabeck et alli, 1989). This paper describes the MicroMAGICS 1.0 product, which is a version of the MAGICS/GKS software for a microcomputer environment, developed at INPE, through an agreement with ECMWF. It includes an interactive interface and an anirnation module, as well as suitable rnodifications to the original MAGICS/GKS code to enable it to run on a microcornputer. 190 190