Aeros

Software Downloads

Please click on the appropriate link to download Aeros.

Note: MacOS downloads with dates prior to Mar 2025 require administrator privileges to install on ARM architecture (M series chips). To see if you have an M chip go to the apple icon in the upper left of your desktop and click "About this Mac". This chip is listed as the first item.

  • Go to System Settings -> Privacy and Security and scroll down to "Allow applications downloaded from".
  • Click on the Aeros install package and then click "Cancel" and under Privacy and security you will see "Aeros-V...." was blocked from use because it is not from an identified developer.
  • Click "Open Anyway", enter admin credentials, and complete installation.
  • The first time Aeros opens takes a little while. You should see the Aeros icon bouncing in the dock.
  • Close and reopen Aeros to ensure that permission persists. You may need to enter the admin credientials one more time.

Note: Select Linux distributions are available by request

Jun, 2025

OSX 15.5 (Sequoia) Intel

Mar, 2025

OSX 14.7 (Sonoma) ARM (signed so installs without admin), but no trackplot

Oct, 2024

Windows 11

March, 2024

Windows 10 OSX 14.2 (Sonoma) Intel/ARM

February, 2024

Windows 10 OSX 14.2 (Sonoma) Intel/ARM

Legacy OS

The following Aeros downloads are provided for users still running old operating systems. They do NOT contain the latest updates but still provide a robust set of features. See the revisions table below to review what functionality is and isn't available.

June 10, 2022

OSX 12.4 (Monterey) Intel OSX 11.6 (BigSur) Intel


Revision History

The changes that are visible to users are given in the following table. The changes that are made for software maintenance and minor bug fixes are not listed here, although they are tracked in the EOL software revision control system. 

Date Revision Details
Mar, 2025 1.5-361
  • App is now signed and notarized with Apple so it will install on ARM without needing admin.
  • Track plot is temporarily disabled.
  • Ported from Qt5 to Qt6
Oct, 2024 1.5-280
  • Saves a screenshot from calibration window on save
March, 2024 1.5-273
  • Fix OAP display to work with Fast2DS probe data.
February, 2024 1.5-271
  • Fix wind barbs in skew-T plot.  Incorrect aspect ratio.
January, 2024 1.5-257
  • Clean up formatting in ASCII and list plots.
  • ...and add option to change column sizing policy (interactive vs fit to content).  Default is fit to contents.
  • Restore SavePNG for track plot.
August, 2023 1.5-229
  • Legacy zero bin in netCDF size-distributions has been removed.  Add support.  Old aeros will not work correctly with new netCDF size-distributions.
  • Add initial support for SPEC 2DS.
  • Fix slow SQL connect times.  This was a real-time only issue.
June, 2020 1.5-40
  • 3D Track Plot re-enabled  to work with Qt5
March, 2019 1.0-400
  • Add support for reading Optical Array Probe files (*.2d).
  • Update to save-ascii. Size-distributions now save cell sizes.
  • Ported from Qt4 to Qt5.
April 3, 2017 1.0-45
  • Updates to histogram functionality
August08, 2016 1.0-31
  • On Connect IWG1, ask user for subnet. NASA aircraft do not use the same subnet as RAF.
July13, 2016 1.0-29
  • We have moved from Subversion to git.  Version numbering has been reset.
  • This rev fixes a bug with University of Wymoing netCDF files that was introduced in January of 2015.
June24,2015 5140
  • Added Page Fwd and Page Bkd (fn-upArrow and fn-downArrow on OSX) to scroll through data.
June15,2015 5137
  • Fixed the broken OSX distribution, so that Aeros will run on all Mac hardware.
  • Track plot is more flexible in the variable names that it wil use for plotting.
  • Behind-the-scene changes to datastore handling of the time dimension.
May12,2015 5122
  • Configuration storing/restoring has been improved. Other behind-the-scenes software maintenance.
Jan21,2015 5079
  • Fixed missing library in the W7 distribution.
Jan13,2015 5076
  • Beta: Trackplot has been refactored with new components, and a slight change to the user interface. Limited testing has been successful, but please report any bugs that you discover.
Jan03,2014 5035
  • Build for Mac OSX 10.9 (Mavericks). Track plot is temporarily disabled in the Mavericks version only.
Dec06,2013 5029
  • FIxed missing libraries in the Windows distribution.
Nov18,2013 5027
  • The built-in help manual was redesigned. No support for Windows XP after this version.
  4958
  • End of support for OSX 10.7 (Lion)

 

History

Originally developed as part of the NCAR Gulfstream V aircraft project. Aeros was designed to replace WINDS and ncplot, ncpp and xpms2d.

Notes

Generic Mapping Tools (GMT) from University of Hawaii is used for the Geo-Political boundaries. 

  • Redhat/CentOS 7 users can use yum to install GMT (e.g. "yum install GMT").
  • MacOS works with the Homebrew installation (e.g. "brew install gmt").
Operating System
Windows
Mac
Linux
Application

The Airborne Environmental Research Observation System (AEROS), is a visualization package for real-time and post-deployment of aircraft observations. Time-series, XY, Size-distributions, Skew-T, 3D Track, Optical Array Probes.

Developers/Maintainers
RAF
Stakeholders
RAF
Status
Active
Level of Support
Supported
Used by these EOL facilities
RAF
Maintenance Status
Stable
Software Domain
Visualization
Public Software
yes
Acquisition, Operations and Instrument Control
yes
Post-Processing, Curation and Data Management
yes
Archival, Delivery and Scientific Support
no