Metview Introductory Material

This material is taken from the COM_MV Metview training course held at ECMWF in March 2012. This course takes place over 3 days, although a fast worker may be able to complete the exercises more quickly. 2012 was the first year that Metview 4 was used in this course.

Metview Interactive Usage

• Slides from the course
• Tutorial
• Files for the tutorial: icons, t1000.grb
  • download these files into your main Metview directory
  • ztuv.grb should go into a directory elsewhere on the filesystem

• Instructions:
  • do part 1 of the tutorial
  • unzip the rest of the icons:
    
    • cd ~/metview
    • unzip mv_tut_icons.zip
  • do the rest of the tutorial

Metview Macro

• Slides from the course
• Macro syntax handout
• First tutorial: handouts, files
• Second tutorial: handouts, files
• Third tutorial: handouts, files
  • cd ~/metview
  • unzip macro_tut*.zip

Using ODB From Within Metview 3

The following material was used for an internal seminar within ECMWF. It discusses the examination of ODBs, retrieval of data and its subsequent processing and plotting within Metview.

• Slides from the seminar
• Tutorial
• Tutorial files
• Example files
• Instructions:
  • unzip odb_tutorial.zip and odb_examples.zip into your main Metview directory:
    • cd ~/metview
    • unzip odb_tutorial.zip
    • unzip odb_examples.zip
  • follow the slides and do the parts of the tutorial where indicated

Using ODB From Within Metview 4 (ECMWF internal only)

The following material describes the use of ODB within Metview 4, and is currently only applicable to internal ECMWF users.

• ODB Tutorial (for Metview 4.0 versions)
• ODB Tutorial (for Metview 4.1 versions)

Using OGC services from Within Metview 4

To support the meteorological community in adopting the OGC standards, the MetOcean Domain Working Group was established within the OGC. ECMWF is an active participant of this working group. Metview 4 provides a WMS (Web Map Service) module which can be used to query an OGC-compliant WMS server, retrieve maps from it and overlay them with other data. The following material describes the use of WMS within Metview 4.

• WMS Tutorial
• Files required for the WMS tutorial

Using FLEXTRA From Within Metview 4 (ECMWF internal only)

The following material describes the use of FLEXTRA within Metview 4, and is currently only applicable to internal ECMWF users.

• FLEXTRA Tutorial (updated on 2012-07-17 for Metview 4.3 versions)

For Metview tutorials, please see:

http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/metview/training/index.html