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Metview releases and virtual machines can be downloaded from the Releases page.

Upcoming webinars

2013-12-03 (Tuesday), 09:30am UK local time (09:30 UTC) : Overview of data handling with Metview

This webinar will give an overview of the data handling with Metview. It will cover GRIB, BUFR, Geopoints, NetCDF, ASCII Table Data and Lat-Long Matrix. It is scheduled to last around an hour. A follow-up question and answer session will be held on 2013-12-05.

The extended version of the webinar slides can be found here. 

All the icons used for the webinar and referred to in the slides can be downloaded as a separate zip file: mv_data_formats.zip

• Instructions:

  • download the file into your main Metview directory (~metview)

  • unzip the file:
    
    • cd ~/metview
    • unzip mv_data_formats.zip
  • start up Metview, enter the uncompressed folder
  • you will find some instructions in a set of .txt files in the folder

If you would like to try further Metview tutorials related to data formats, go to the Tutorials page and find the 'Using BUFR in Metview 4' section, which features a tutorial about the BUFR support in Metview.

You might also be interested in the 'Metview Macro' section under the 'Metview Introductory Material' section. Here Macro Tutorial 2 demonstrates how to deal with observation data and compare it with gridded field data. Macro Tutorial 3 shows some of the more advanced aspects of GRIB-handling, such as masking a field based on the values of another, extracting point data from a fieldset and retrieving meta-data from a fieldsetNo scheduled webinars at the moment.

Past webinars

2013-03-12 : Introduction to Metview

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• recording of the session (approximately 41 minutes) :
  [Direct download: introduction_to_macro.m4v]

2013-12-03 (Tuesday), 09:30am UK local time (09:30 UTC) : Overview of data handling with Metview

This webinar gave an overview of the data handling with Metview. It covered GRIB, BUFR, Geopoints, NetCDF, ASCII Table Data and Lat-Long Matrix. It is scheduled to last around an hour. A follow-up question and answer session will be held on 2013-12-05.

The extended version of the webinar slides can be found here. 

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All the icons used for the webinar and referred to in the slides can be downloaded as a separate zip file: mv_data_formats.zip

• Instructions:

  • download the file into your main Metview directory (~metview)

  • unzip the file:
    
    • cd ~/metview
    • unzip mv_data_formats.zip
  • start up Metview, enter the uncompressed folder
  • you will find some instructions in a set of .txt files in the folder

If you would like to try further Metview tutorials related to data formats, go to the Tutorials page and find the 'Using BUFR in Metview 4' section, which features a tutorial about the BUFR support in Metview.

You might also be interested in the 'Metview Macro' section under the 'Metview Introductory Material' section. Here Macro Tutorial 2 demonstrates how to deal with observation data and compare it with gridded field data. Macro Tutorial 3 shows some of the more advanced aspects of GRIB-handling, such as masking a field based on the values of another, extracting point data from a fieldset and retrieving meta-data from a fieldset.

• recording of the session (approximately 47 minutes) :
• Direct download: metview-data-handling.m4v