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
- unzip odb_tutorial.zip and odb_examples.zip into your main Metview directory:
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.
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:
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