This tutorial explains how to use the WMS (Web Map Service) client within Metview 4.
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Please note that this tutorial requires Metview version 4.0.5 or later. |
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First start Metview; at ECMWF, the command to use is metview_new (see Metview at ECMWF for details of Metview versions). You should see the main Metview desktop popping up.
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The Metview WMS client can perform both of this these request types enabling users to perform the following actions:
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- As a general rule multiple dimension values can be specified as a comma separated list. This is also true for dimension Time so our time selection could have been written as:
2006-01-01,2006-02-01,2006-03-01,2006-04-01,2006-05-01,2006-06-01,2006-07-01,2006-08-01,2006-09-01,2006-10-01,2006-11-01,2006-12-01
Please note that white spaces are not allowed between the commas and the values! - The following table summarises how the WMS parameters are mapped to frame keys in Metview.
Layer name | shortName |
Date part of dimension TIME | date, dataDate, time.dataDate |
Time part of dimension TIME | time, dataTime, time.DataTime |
Date part of dimension DIM_RUN | date, dataDate, time.dataDate |
Date part of dimension DIM_RUN | time, dataTime, time.DataTime |
Dimension DIM_FORECAST | step, stepRange, time.stepRange |
Dimension ELEVATION | level, vertical.level |
Editing WMS Requests Manually
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