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Metview Tutorial for the Introduction for New Users Course

The following tutorial was written for ECMWF's Introduction for New Users course (COM_MARS) and shows how to retrieve data from MARS using Metview, perform some basic manipulations and plot the result.

• ECMWF New Users Metview Tutorial

Metview Introductory Material

This material is taken from the COM_MV Metview training course held at ECMWF in March 2013. 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: 2013-03-12-Metview_COM_MV.pdf
• Tutorial: metview_gui_course.pdf
• Files for the tutorial: mv_tut_icons.zip, 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: mv_macro.pdf
• Macro syntax handout: macrotut_syntax.pdf
• First tutorial (Introduction) : metview_macro_tutorial_1.pdf, macro_tut1.zip
• Second tutorial (Model-Obs Differences) : metview_macro_tutorial_2.pdf, macro_tut2.zip
• Third tutorial (Advanced GRIB Handling) : metview_macro_tutorial_3.pdf, macro_tut3.zip
  
  • cd ~/metview
  • unzip macro_tut*.zip

Using BUFR in Metview 4

The following material describes the use of BUFR within Metview 4.

• BUFR Tutorial (for Metview 4.3 versions) : mv_bufr_tutorial.pdf

• Files required for the BUFR tutorial: bufr_tutorial_icons.zip

ODB Tutorial (for Metview 4.1 versions) : 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 4.1 versions) : mv_odb_tutorial_41.pdf

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 : mv_wms_tutorial.pdf
• Files required for the WMS tutorial: (to be uploaded soon)

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 2012-08-15 for Metview 4.3 versions) : mv_flextra_tutorial.pdf
• Files required for FLEXTRA tutorial (will only work at ECMWF because it uses large local data files) : flextra_tutorial_icons.zip