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The following picture shows some of these View's concepts. This is a customised Geographical View showing:
- more than one globe's worth of area in a Cylindrical projection.
- data overlay control: 5 infra-red bands (Meteosat-7, Meteosat-10, GOES-13, GOES-15, MTSAT-2) and a temperature field.
- coastlines attributes (e.g. line colour, lat/long increments,...).
Eight Views View specifications are currently available:
| Name | Usage (Used for plotting or Plotting specification for) |
|---|---|
| Geographical View | geographic-based data plots (default View) (linksee also A Quick Tour of Metview) |
| Cartesian View | plots that are not to be displayed on a map (linksee also Graph Plotting in Metview) |
| Cross Section View | cross section plots |
| Vertical Profile View | vertical profile plots |
| Average View | average (zonal or meridional) cross-section plots |
| Annotation View | text boxes (link) |
| Hovmøller View | Hovmøller diagram plots |
| Thermo View | thermodynamic diagram plots |
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The Geographical View 
This is the default View for plotting geographic-based data. This View was discussed previously in A Quick Tour of Metview.
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