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This postprocessing is required if the Metview Python script is to be used later to visualise the model output.

Plotting of model output

Here we describe in a brief summary how a small number of plots from the model results can be generated. This permits a first-order sanity check whether the model results look sensible.

For this we use the Metview graphics package developed at ECMWF.

In a first step we process the OpenIFS model output into a dateset format that can be easily interpreted by Metview using a simplified plotting procedure. For this purpose the oifs_mv.tgz package should be extracted on the file system.

Edit the file oifs_to_mv.sh and change the path variables:

• in_dir:  needs to point to the folder where the postprocessed OpenIFS model experiment (previous section) is found. Absolute file paths are required.