Met.3D v1.13

16 September 2024, by Marc Rautenhaus

Photo: Met.3D

The HCDS Visual Data Analysis Group is pleased to announce version 1.13 of its open-source research software “Met.3D”, a tool for rapid analysis of atmospheric data by means of interactive 3-D visualization. We presented the software at the beginning of September at the Annual Meeting of the European Meteorological Society in Barcelona, Spain:

Rautenhaus, M., Fischer, C., Vogt, T., Beckert, A., and Fuchs, S.: Towards Met.3D version 2: Rapid exploration of numerical weather prediction data by means of interactive 3-D visualization, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-946, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-946, 2024.

Fischer, C., Vogt, T., Beckert, A., Fuchs, S., Radke, T., and Rautenhaus, M.: Novel 3-D and AI-based weather forecast products based on open data, EMS Annual Meeting 2024, Barcelona, Spain, 1–6 Sep 2024, EMS2024-949, https://doi.org/10.5194/ems2024-949, 2024

The new version 1.13 features a completely revised module for Lagrangian trajectory analysis, improved support for open data by the German Weather Service (DWD) and the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), revised handling of shadows, and many bugfixes and usability improvements.
A video demonstrating the use of Met.3D with open weather forecast data from DWD is available on Lecture2Go: here

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