Version 5.4 Updates

Not externally released.

  • Became  metview/default and metview/new at ECMWF on 2019-01-29 (Linux desktops, ecgate, lxc, lxop)

  • At ECMWF:

    • Installed 2019-01-17

    • Built with Magics 3.3.1

    • Built with ecCodes 2.10.1

    • Built with ODB_API version 0.18.1

    • Built with emoslib 000459

    • Built with mir 1.1.1

Highlights:

  • interpolation: this is the first version of Metview to use mir as its interpolation library by default when running at ECMWF. The following functions are affected:

    • retrieve()

    • read()

    • divrot()

    • divwind()

    • uvwind()

  • and their corresponding icons:

    • Mars Retrieval

    • Grib Filter

    • Rotational or Divergent Wind

  • The environment variable METVIEW_MARS_INTERP can be set to either MIR or EMOS in order to change this behaviour before running Metview.

  • In order to facilitate running and comparing both interpolation methods within a single Metview session, there also exist separate versions of the above functions, e.g. retrieve_mir() and retrieve_emos(), which will use the interpolation package in their name and will not be affected by the environment variable. Corresponding to these functions are also icons, which are available from Metview’s user interface.

  • Please note that the existence of these specialised functions is temporary - operational scripts should not depend on them.

  • We currently do not have an externally available version of Metview that includes mir.