Metview

Metview is a meteorological workstation and batch system developed at the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).

[1] Development began at ECMWF in 1990 in co-operation with the National Institute for Space Research of Brazil and Météo-France.

Metview offers also various tools to explore and display the content of meteorological file formats, such as GRIdded Binary or General Regularly-distributed Information in Binary form (GRIB), Binary Universal Form for the Representation of meteorological data (BUFR), Network Common Data Form (NetCDF), and OpenDocument Database Front End Document Format (ODB).

Metview is an extended MARS client,[9] and uses ecCodes[10] for GRIB and BUFR handling and Magics[11] for contouring and visualisation.

Metview is distributed mainly as a source code tar file, termed a tarball, under an Apache License version 2.0.

This screenshot of the Metview desktop shows its icon based interface and its visualisation abilities.