1. Slide 1 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 1 Update on Metview and MAGICS/Magics++ Stephan Siemen Graphics Section ECMWF

2. Slide 2 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 2 Overview MAGICS Magics++ Metview

3. Slide 3 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 3 MAGICS 6 The maintenance of the current operational MAGICS has continued The changes for the switch to the new extended ECMWF VarEPS were successful The latest internal Test Version is 6.12 The current available Export Version is 6.11 -Released 2006-11-14 -Support for gfortran added Tested platforms - Linux: SuSE 9.1- IBM: AIX 5.1 - SGI: IRIX 6.5- HP: HP-UX B.11.00 - Alpha: OSF1 V5.1- Sun: SunOS 5.7

4. Slide 4 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 4 Magics++ Export version to Member states has been released The current available export version is 2.0.1 -Released 2007-04-17 The latest internal test version is 2.1.0 Tested platforms -Linux: SuSE 9.1 / 10.x (32 and 64 bit) -IBM: AIX 5.3 -Tested compilers: g++, icpc, xlC (gfortran, pgf90, ifort, xlf90) -We are collecting feedback from Member States which platforms (operating system / distributions + compilers) they use to get a better overview

5. Slide 5 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 5 Magics++

6. Slide 6 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 6 Magics++ - Grib 2 Used in monitoring TIGGE’s Grib 2 data using MagML

7. Slide 7 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 7 Magics++ Metgrams Used to produce the new 15 day VarEPS metgram Thanks to MagML it is easy to adopt metgrams to new requirements

8. Slide 8 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 8 Magics++ - new features Boxplots available for users through easy interface Maps with more than 360° in Longitude with wrap- around display of data Different resolutions of coastlines MapGen data files allow users to add own borders and rivers User logo

9. Slide 9 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 9 Magics++ - MagML XML based format to describe Magics++ plots Descriptive, not procedural No need for (re-)compilation magml interpreter program processes a MagML file and produces output graphics Interpreter can be easily called in user code Description close to Metview’s icon convention Can be integrated into more complex XML request descriptions

10. Slide 10 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 10 Magics++ - MagML usage MagML is very popular with individual users at ECMWF Main aim is the large scale automatic production of plots MagML enables easy use of new features of Magics++ to make it more attractive for producing web output -Generating meta information to support scripting of web output -Transparency support in improved drivers -Layers -New formats: SVG, GIF, PDF Used in this way in the Services-On-Demand project at ECMWF Ideal as backend for web interfaces with constant layout and visual properties but changing data

11. Slide 11 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 11 <text font='Times-Roman' colour='rgb(0.1,0.6,0.2)' bottom="90%" display="inline" >Z500 Contour Plot MagML - example - the code Variables can be passed to interpreter

12. Slide 12 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 12 MagML - example - the output

13. Slide 13 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 13 Magics++ - plans Support for satellite data New MagML syntax – taking into account all the feedback we received Support for observations Extensions to Metgrams, such as display of wind direction and climate Improve support for NetCDF (3D data sets)

14. Slide 14 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 14 Metview ECMWF's meteorological data visualisation and processing tool Complete working environment for the operational and research meteorologist GRIB BUFR Matrix other MAGICS output PostScript PNG, JPEG Macro Metview Visualisation Processing InteractiveBatch script routine production Mars

15. Slide 15 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 15 Metview Principles First Metview Principle: “Everything in Metview is an Icon” Second Metview Principle: “Every Metview Task is a sequence of actions on icons”

16. Slide 16 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 16 Metview user interface Edit to open Desktop Click-Right for Desktop Menu Main Desktop Opened Desktop Icon Drawers Menu Bar Desktop Menu

17. Slide 17 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 17 Metview Icon Editors (1) Graphical editor (Display Window) Standard editor (MARS Retrieval) Family editor (Simple Formula) Text editor (Macro)

18. Slide 18 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 18 Icon Id (click to see contents in plain text format) Input area Input element: Check Button Templates Drawer: Stores predefined (frequently used) icons Save/Exit area Help Button (linked to HTML Help Pages) Input element: Icon Field Input element: Option Menu Input element: Alphanumeric Field Metview Icon Editors (2)

19. Slide 19 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 19 Metview - Display Window Menu Bar Frame Menu (Click-Right) Content Tab Controls Tab Command Buttons (‘Tool Tip Help’ when pointing to) Plot Size Control Generate Macro

20. Slide 20 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 20 Metview UI – user feedback Easy to learn and use Users like small menus Icon concept reflects meteorological content Icons and Macro objects are the same – future Macros can be easily prototyped in the GUI Default behaviour can be easily adjusted, and templates of icons exchanged between Metview users … still long list of improvements: -Macro editor needs improving -More features to process satellite data -Eventually replace Motif

21. Slide 21 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 21 Metview – developments (1) There is a continuing routine effort to incorporate new facilities into Metview. These constant improvements include -New requirements, such as enhancements for BUFR Edition 4 -'Percentile' application (EPS) -'Height' and 'Expand' applications were added into Hovmöller Family -Satellite Image re-projection application -EPS-metgram, 15 Days EPS metgram, and Classic Metgram now use Magics++ -Enhanced Macro memory usage

22. Slide 22 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 22 Metview - Percentile

23. Slide 23 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 23 Metview - Hovmöller Diagram

24. Slide 24 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 24 Metview – developments (2) New features were added into Metview to meet user requirements, including several Metview Macro functions: -remove_duplicates, var_a, stdev_a, covar_a, corr_a, search, tmpfile, frequencies, integer, unipressure, unithickness Add macro functions for code timing New compilers, such as GCC 4 and gfortran, were tested Routine efforts also include training courses, software maintenance and support for both internal and external Metview users

25. Slide 25 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 25 Metview Macro – inline Fortran & C

26. Slide 26 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 26 Metview - releases The latest internal Metview version is 3.9.3 which is based on Magics 6.12 and Emoslib cycle 000320 Metview 3.9-export, released 2006-11-10, supports the extended VarEPS Tested platforms - Linux: SuSE 9.1- IBM: AIX 5.1 / 5.3 - SGI: IRIX 6.5- HP: HP-UX B.11.00 - Sun: SunOS 5.7

27. Slide 27 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 27 Metview - plans Tests have been started to use the grib_api within Metview to handle Grib 2 data. This will be part of the next export version A general purpose Macro library A new visualisation module to take advantage of all the benefits provided by Magics++ The first prototype using Magics++ aims to execute current operational Metview Macros

28. Slide 28 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 28 Magics++ Future Benefits for Metview Magics++ and Metview will both use C++ More input and output formats Improvements in user interactivity, such as legend/text handling The ability to dynamically toggle certain graphical objects, such as contour labels and maxima/minima Querying the properties of graphical objects displayed on screen Generate MagML for service-on-demand (web)

29. Slide 29 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 29 11th Workshop on Meteorological Operational Systems 12 th – 16 th November 2007 at ECMWF, Reading, UK Speakers are invited to report on “new trends in meteorological visualisation applications” More information at www.ecmwf.int/newsevents/meetings/workshops/2007/MOS_11/

30. Slide 30 18th EGOWS, Dublin, 18 - 21 June 2007 30 Summary Metview -Metview 3.9 export version -Next export version 3.10 planned for 4Q2007 MAGICS -MAGICS 6.11 export version Magics++ -Magics++ 2.0.1 export version -Next Export version planned 3Q2007 For more information and to keep up-to-date with developments, please visit our webpage or subscribe to our RSS at http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/magics http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/metview