About Met.3D

Met.3D is being developed as a research effort to improve the visualization of meteorological data in research and forecasting.

Detailed information about the software and its uses can be found in the following publications:

  • 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.
  • Rautenhaus, M., Grams, C. M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: Three-dimensional visualization of ensemble weather forecasts –Part 2: Forecasting warm conveyor belt situations for aircraft-based field campaigns, Geosci. Model Dev., 8, 2355-2377, doi:10.5194/gmd-8-2355-2015, 2015.
  • Rautenhaus, M., Grams, C. M., Schäfler, A., and Westermann, R.: GPU based interactive 3D visualization of ECMWF ensemble forecasts, ECMWF Newsletter, vol. 138 (Winter 2014), pp. 34-38, 2014.

Note

Currently, Met.3D research and development is continued, among others, in the context of the German Transregional Collaborative Research Center “Waves to Weather” (see the Waves to Weather cross-cutting activity “Visualisation”). During fall 2016, Met.3D will be used for weather forecasting during the NAWDEX field campaign.