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The home of the software is ODB.
ODB/SQL
Data from an ODB can be extracted using the ODB/SQL query language.
How do I use Metview with ODB?
Metview automatically recognizes both ODB-1 and ODB-2 databases and assigns the very same icon to them in the user interface:
Running the examine command on this icon brings up the ODB examiner to inspect the meta-data and data it contains.
ODB data can be directly visualised in various plot types via the ODB Visualiser icon
or if only an ODB/SQL query needs to be run
data using various plot types. Optionally it can perform an ODB/SQL query on the input ODB and visualises the resulting (intermediate) data. It works for both databases (ODB-1) and files (ODB-2).
From Macro/Python the icon can be called as odb_visualiser().
A tutorial about using ODB in Metview can be found here.
What is ODB?
FLEXPART is a Lagrangian particle dispersion model developed and used by a scientific community. It can be driven by meteorological input data from a variety of global and regional models including ECMWF analyses and forecasts.
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