Tutorials

A Quick Tour of Metview

This was the first part of 2015's Metview training course. It can stand alone as a first introduction to Metview.

A Quick Tour of Metview

Data Analysis and Visualisation Using Metview

This training course took place from 26-30th September 2016 at ECMWF, giving 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 4

The following material describes the use of BUFR within Metview 4.

BUFR Tutorial (for Metview 4.3 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 OGC services from Within Metview 4

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 4 (ECMWF internal only)

The following material describes the use of FLEXTRA within Metview 4, and is currently only applicable to internal ECMWF users.

FLEXTRA Tutorial (updated on 2012-08-15 for Metview 4.3 versions): mv_flextra_tutorial.pdf
Files required for FLEXTRA tutorial (will only work at ECMWF because it uses large local data files): flextra_tutorial_icons.zip

Using Metview to Prepare data for 3D Visualisation in VAPOR