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titleSaving images

 To save images during these exercises for discussion later, you can use:

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"Export" button in Metview's display window under the 'File' menu. This will also allow animations to be saved into postscript.

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titleUse the following command to take a 'snapshot' of the screen:
ksnapshot

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titlePlot wind gust observations

 1. Right-click on the icon labelled 'wgust_obs.mv' and select 'Visualise' (or Control-I on the keyboard) THIS MAY CHANGE

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titlePlot analyses in various layouts

Icon 'an_1x1.mv' produces a single plot on the page.

Icon 'an_2x2.mv' can produce up to 4 plots per page.

 

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titleChange plot fields

For the 'an_1x1.mv' icon, the plot contents can be changed by editing the plot1 variable in the macro. By default the 10m wind is shown.

To alter the plotted field, right-click and choose 'Edit'.

It is possible to overlay multiple fields like this:

You will find a list of available parameters in the macro.

After editing the macro text, you can optionally save using the 'File' menu and 'Save'.

Display the plot by clicking:

Animate the plots in the display window by clicking

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titleChange plot appearance

 The number of maps appearing in the plot layout can be 1, 2, 3 or 4.

Macro an_2x2.mv demonstrates how to plot a four-map layout in a similar fashion to the one-map layout. The only difference here is that you need to define four plots instead of one.

Right-click on the icon and select 'Edit'. Change the plot layout like this:

Two map types are available covering a different area.

With mapType=0, the map will cover a smaller geographical area centred on the UK.

With mapType=1, the map will cover most of the North Atlantic

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