Met.3D - a research software for interactive 3-D visualization of gridded atmospheric data

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The documentation you are reading is work in progress and currently revised for the next major Met.3D release. Parts of the user and developer manuals may be out of date. We are adding bits and pieces whenever we find time. If you don’t find the information you are looking for, please contact us. Also, help with updating this documentation is much appreciated (even if you just let us know which information you are missing).

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 the 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.