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:
- :doc:`GRIB </data_types/fieldset>` files (editions 1 and 2)
- :doc:`BUFR </data_types/bufr>` files
- :doc:`MARS </gen_files/icon_functions/retrieve>` (ECMWF's meteorological archive)
- :doc:`ODB </data_types/odb>` (Observation Database)
- :doc:`ASCII data file </data_types/table>` (CSV, grids and scattered data)
- :doc:`Geopoints </data_types/geopoints>` (Metview's own format for handling scattered data)
- :doc:`NetCDF </data_types/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 :ref:`scalar <gallery_group_map_scalar>`, :ref:`ensemble <gallery_group_map_ens>`, :ref:`vector <gallery_group_map_vector>`, :ref:`point <gallery_group_map_point>` and :ref:`curve <gallery_group_map_curve>` data in various :ref:`projections <gallery_group_map_projections>`
- :ref:`cross sections <gallery_group_cross_section>`
- :ref:`Hovmoeller diagrams <gallery_group_hovmoeller>`
- :ref:`average sections <gallery_group_average_section>`
- :ref:`vertical profiles <gallery_group_vertical_profile>`
- :ref:`thermodynamic diagrams <gallery_group_map_thermo>`
- :ref:`x/y graph plots <gallery_group_xy>`
- 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 :ref:`VAPOR <3d_visualisation_with_vapor>`, :ref:`Met3D <met3d_prepare_icon>`, :ref:`FLEXTRA <the_flextra_interface>` and :ref:`FLEXPART <the_flexpart_interface>`.