Met.3D - a research software for interactive 3-D visualization of gridded atmospheric data
Welcome to the online documentation of Met.3D, the open-source visualization research software for interactive, three-dimensional visual analysis of gridded atmospheric data.
If you are new to Met.3D, we recommend that you read Introduction page to get an overview of the software and of this documentation. The sidebar on the left should let you easily access the documentation for your topic of interest. You can also use the search function in the top-left corner.
What is Met.3D?
The following video demonstrates typical use of Met.3D. Open numerical weather prediction data (ICON-EU model) is downloaded from the German Weather Service (DWD) open data server. Example configurations for Met.3D visual analysis modules (called “actors”) are loaded to showcase some of the visualization functionality that Met.3D offers.
Get involved
Met.3D is an open-source project whose development is lead by the Visual Data Analysis Group at the Hub of Computing and Data Science of the University of Hamburg, Germany. We are always looking for new users and contributors, and we can always use your feedback to improve the software and its documentation. If you don’t understand something, or cannot find what you are looking for in the docs, help us by letting us know!
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Met.3D is open-source, and available on Gitlab. The software is licensed under the GNU General Public License, Version 3.
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The original Met.3D reference publication has been published in Geoscientific Model Development and is available online:
Rautenhaus, M., Kern, M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: “Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts – Part 1: The visualization tool Met.3D (version 1.0)”, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2329-2353, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-2329-2015, 2015.