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Metview webinars provide a means to receive some basic training in the usage of Metview over the internet. 

Most recent webinars

2021-05-20: Stop, think, interpolate! The power of regridding in Metview

Recording: here

2020-05-14: Interactive analysis of ECMWF Data

Recording: here

Slides as PDF: 2020-05-14-Interactive-analysis-of-ecmwf-data.pdf

Jupyter notebook: Interactive data analysis

2020-05-12: Processing and visualising ECMWF ensemble data

Recording: here

Slides as PDF: 2020-05-12-Processing-and-visualising-ecmwf-ens-data.pdf

Jupyter notebook: Computing and plotting ensemble data

2019-05-14: Post-processing of ECMWF data

Slides as PDF: 2019-05-14-Postprocessing-of-ecmwf-data.pdf (recording here)

2019-05-13: Visualisation of ECMWF data

Slides as PDF: 2019-05-13-Visualisation-of-ECMWF-data.pdf (recording here)

2018-11-28 : Working with ECMWF data in Python - Building a new framework to interact with ECMWF data & services

You can access the webinar recording via Adobe Connect or view the mp4 directly: 20181128-WorkingECMWFDataPython.mp4.

Slides as PDF:

Examples from presentation can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/ecmwf/notebook-examples.

Recordings of the notebooks in action are here:

Past webinars

2013-03-12 : Introduction to Metview

This was the first Metview webinar. It consisted of the introductory slides and demonstration as presented in the annual Metview training course at ECMWF (see Tutorials).

  • recording of the session (approximately 47 minutes) :

    [Direct download: introduction_metview.mp4]

2013-06-19 (Wednesday), 09:30am UK local time (08:30 UTC) : Introduction to Metview

This webinar gave an introduction to using Metview's interactive user interface, introducing the main concepts behind Metview and how to use it.

The slides can be found here.

If you would like to do the Metview introductory tutorial material, go to the Tutorials page and find the 'Metview Introductory Material' section. Now follow the instructions under 'Metview Interactive Usage'. This is the same material which is followed during the annual Metview training course at ECMWF, and takes 1.5 days to complete (dependent on personal speed). These exercises require a working Metview installation, but users with access to ECMWF's Member State server ecgate can log on and type metview4 to start Metview.

2013-06-24 (Monday), 09:30am UK local time (08:30 UTC) : Introduction to Macro

This webinar gave an introduction to using Metview's macro scripting language. It was based on the Macro training course - see Tutorials.

The slides can be found here.

If you would like to try the Metview introductory tutorial material, go to the Tutorials page and find the 'Metview Introductory Material' section. Now follow the instructions under 'Metview Macro'. An expanded version of the webinar slides can be found as 'mv_macro.pdf'.

Macro Tutorial 1 teaches the basics of the Macro language. We suggest you do only steps 1-8 and 11-12 (i.e., omit steps 9-10 and the section on expanding Macro with your own Fortran or C routines). Also, start on page 5 since the introduction was already covered in the webinar.

Macro Tutorial 2 demonstrates how to deal with observation data and compare it with gridded field data.

Macro Tutorial 3 shows some of the more advanced aspects of GRIB-handling, such as masking a field based on the values of another, extracting point data from a fieldset and retrieving meta-data from a fieldset.

2013-12-03 (Tuesday), 09:30am UK local time (09:30 UTC) : Overview of data handling with Metview

This webinar gave an overview of the data handling with Metview. It covered GRIB, BUFR, Geopoints, NetCDF, ASCII Table Data and Lat-Long Matrix. It is scheduled to last around an hour. A follow-up question and answer session will be held on 2013-12-05.

The extended version of the webinar slides can be found here. 

All the icons used for the webinar and referred to in the slides can be downloaded as a separate zip file: mv_data_formats.zip

  • Instructions:

    • download the file into your main Metview directory (~metview)

    • unzip the file:
      • cd ~/metview
      • unzip mv_data_formats.zip
    • start up Metview, enter the uncompressed folder
    • you will find some instructions in a set of .txt files in the folder

If you would like to try further Metview tutorials related to data formats, go to the Tutorials page and find the 'Using BUFR in Metview 4' section, which features a tutorial about the BUFR support in Metview.

You might also be interested in the 'Metview Macro' section under the 'Metview Introductory Material' section. Here Macro Tutorial 2 demonstrates how to deal with observation data and compare it with gridded field data. Macro Tutorial 3 shows some of the more advanced aspects of GRIB-handling, such as masking a field based on the values of another, extracting point data from a fieldset and retrieving meta-data from a fieldset.