Overview

You have seen already how to visualise outputs

Overview

Most your outputs either on the display or save it to file. Most processing you will do with Metview will lead to an visualisation you might want to save to either publish it on web pages or in reports air archive or simply to keep records. This session will give you more information on how you can save and customise your visualisations. 

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• we must again check the run mode, and if it is Save then write the data to a file; otherwise plot the data.

Pages

Some graphical formats, such as PostScript and PDF, allow multiple pages within the documents. Other formats, such as PNG, which will contain a single page at the time and therefore contain a number in their name to indicate which page number they contain. You can trigger a new page in Metview Macro with the function

newpage()

This function is normally used within loops to generate output of each iteration on a separate page (or file).

Task

Take one of your existing Macros containing a loop and try to print each iteration on a page.

KML as output format

KML is a very special output format. It contains the    it has no notion of output size.

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http://www.opengeospatial.org/standards/wms

But you do not need to read this to use web map services. The only thing you need to know is that to use a map service you need to request a so-called GetCapabilities document first. This document contains all information (in human and machine readable form) on what maps are offered and what the client can do. Metview will parse this file and offers you a convent and easy to use interface to request the maps you want.

The following material describes the use of WMS within Metview.

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