Overview

Metview is a meteorological workstation application designed to be a complete working environment for both the operational and research meteorologist. Its capabilities include powerful data access, processing and visualisation. It features both a powerful icon-based user interface for interactive work and a Python interface for batch processing.

Metview can take input data from a variety of sources, including:

• GRIB files (editions 1 and 2)

• BUFR files

• MARS (ECMWF’s meteorological archive)

• ODB (Observation Database)

• ASCII data file (CSV, grids and scattered data)

• Geopoints (Metview’s own format for handling scattered data)

• NetCDF files

Powerful data filtering and processing facilities are then available, and if graphics output is desired, then Metview can produce many plot types, including:

• map views with scalar, ensemble, vector, point and curve data in various projections

• cross sections

• Hovmoeller diagrams

• average sections

• vertical profiles

• thermodynamic diagrams

• x/y graph plots

• intelligent overlay of data from various sources on the same map arrangement of multiple plots on the same page

Metview can also interface with external models and applications, such as VAPOR, Met3D, FLEXTRA and FLEXPART.