This section provides an overview of the data and file formats supported by Met.3D.
- Met.3D supports gridded, structured data with a regular, georeferenced longitude-latitude grid in the horizontal, and either levels of constant pressure (in the following “pressure levels”) or hybrid sigma-pressure levels (as used, e.g., by the ECMWF integrated forecast system) in the vertical.
- Multiple datasets (that can have different grids) and ensemble datasets are natively supported.
- Also, trajectory data is supported.
- Currently, gridded data can be read from NetCDF files following the Climate and Forecast (CF) Metadata Conventions and from ECMWF GRIB files; trajectory data can be read from NetCDF files with a custom formatting.
Note
If your data cannot be read by Met.3D (i.e., if you don’t have access to your datasets after start-up), a (admittedly currently limited) set of error messages is displayed by the software in the start-up output on the text console. Please contact us if you need help.
Note
Display of non-georeferenced data on regular grids (e.g., output from LES models) is possible but requires some hacking on the NetCDF side. Please contact us if you are interested. We are working on making data import for such data easily possible in a future Met.3D version.