These exercises demonstrate some basic functionality of Metview, showing how to retrieve data from MARS, examine the data's structure, compute the differences between different data sets and visualise them. | Scroll pdf ignore |
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Note that the figures can be clicked on to obtain full-sized versions. |
First start Metview; at ECMWF, the command to use is metview for this tutorial (see Metview at ECMWF for details of Metview versions)simply metview. You should see the main Metview desktop which looks something like Figure 1. In Metview, all operations can be performed via icons. All icons are available via the Create New Icon context menu of the Metview desktop. You will create some icons yourself, but some are supplied for you - please download the following file and save it in your $HOME/metview directory: | Panel |
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| metview_intro.tar.gz
Alternatively, if at ECMWF then you can copy it like this from the command line:
cp /scratch/graphics/cgi/metview_intro.tar.gz $HOME/metview/ |
You should see it appear on your main Metview desktop, from where you can right-click on it, then choose execute to extract the files. You should now (after a few seconds) see a metview_intro folder which contains the icons we will work with. You should work in this folder, not the embedded solutions folder. | 