Tutorials

Introduction to Metview

One-hour e-Learning course with no Metview installation required.

• https://www.ecmwf.int/en/learning/education-material/elearning-online-resources

A Quick Tour of Metview

This standalone module is a good first introduction to Metview and should take 20-30 minutes.

• A Quick Tour of Metview

90-Minute Metview Introduction

This short course gives a taste of much of Metview's functionality, with links to resources for further exploration. The emphasis here is on visual, interactive and scripted data analysis.

• Metview 90 minute introduction

Data Analysis and Visualisation Using Metview

This set of self-learn modules gives a comprehensive introduction to Metview's capabilities.

• Data analysis and visualisation using Metview

Metview Tutorial for the Introduction for New Users Course

The following tutorial was written for ECMWF's Introduction for New Users course (COM_MARS) and shows how to retrieve data from MARS using Metview, perform some basic manipulations and plot the result.

• ECMWF New Users Metview Tutorial

Metview Introductory Material

This material is taken from the COM_MV Metview training course held at ECMWF in April 2014. This course took place over 3 days, although a fast worker may be able to complete the exercises more quickly. 2012 was the first year that Metview 4 was used in this course. 2014 was the first year that the new user interface was used.

Metview Interactive Usage

• Slides from the course: 2014-04-29-Metview_COM_MV.pdf
• Tutorial: metview_gui_course.pdf
• Files for the tutorial: mv_tut_icons.zip, t1000.grb
  
  • download these files into your main Metview directory
  • ztuv.grb should go into a directory elsewhere on the filesystem

• Instructions:
  • do part 1 of the tutorial
  • unzip the rest of the icons:
    
    • cd ~/metview
    • unzip mv_tut_icons.zip
  • do the rest of the tutorial

Metview Macro

• Slides from the course: mv_macro.pdf
• Macro syntax handout: macrotut_syntax.pdf
• First tutorial (Introduction) : metview_macro_tutorial_1.pdf
• Second tutorial (Model-Obs Differences) : metview_macro_tutorial_2.pdf
• Third tutorial (Advanced GRIB Handling) : metview_macro_tutorial_3.pdf
• Icons and data for all Macro tutorials: macro_tutorial_icons.zip
  
  • cd ~/metview
  • unzip macro_tutorial_icons.zip

Using BUFR in Metview

The following material describes the use of BUFR within Metview.

• BUFR Tutorial (for Metview 4.3 and newer versions): mv_bufr_tutorial.pdf

• Files required for the BUFR tutorial: bufr_tutorial_icons.zip

Using ODB From Within Metview

A tutorial is available here:

• ODB Tutorial
• Using ODB with Metview  [designed to be used from within ECMWF]

Using OGC services from Within Metview

To support the meteorological community in adopting the OGC standards, the MetOcean Domain Working Group was established within the OGC. ECMWF is an active participant of this working group. Metview 4 provides a WMS (Web Map Service) module which can be used to query an OGC-compliant WMS server, retrieve maps from it and overlay them with other data. A tutorial is available here:

• Metview WMS Tutorial

Using FLEXTRA From Within Metview (ECMWF internal only)

The following material describes the use of FLEXTRA within Metview, and is currently only applicable to internal ECMWF users.

• FLEXTRA tutorial

Using FLEXPART From Within Metview

The following material describes the use of the particle dispersion model FLEXPART from within Metview.

• Using FLEXPART with Metview

Using Metview to Prepare data for 3D Visualisation in VAPOR

A tutorial is available here:

• VAPOR Tutorial

Using the Single Column Model in Metview

This tutorial requires a single column model executable, which is not a standard part of the Metview distribution. It is, however, used as part of OpenIFS Home Workshops and the Parametrization of subgrid physical processes training course. The Metview-SCM tutorial is here:

• The SCM Interface in Metview - Tutorial