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Visualisation at the Met Office Presented by Neil Armstrong, Deputy Chief Meteorologist 30 th September 2015
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Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

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Page 1: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation at the Met Office Presented by Neil Armstrong, Deputy Chief Meteorologist

30th September 2015

Page 2: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Introduction

• A quick introduction to the Met Office • Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists • A closer look at Visual Weather - Map Editor

- Feature Editor

- Metmorph • Future challenges • Some operational WMS - RGB composites

- Ensemble data

Page 3: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

A quick introduction to the Met Office

~ 400 operational meteorologists

Ops Centre, Exeter

Deployed to over 30 frontline stations

including frontline military bases and offshore sites

Page 4: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

A quick introduction to the Met Office NWP Suite

Page 5: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

A quick introduction to the Met Office

Everyday .... 100 million (around 300 GB) observations Operational Models produce 4 TB of products Climate Research produce 52 TB of data Of that around 155 GB goes to Visual Weather servers

Page 6: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers

Page 7: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based

Page 8: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based

Page 9: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers

Page 10: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts)

Page 11: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ECMWF, ecCharts)

Page 12: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ECMWF, ecCharts)

Page 13: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts) • Visual Weather (and Browsing Weather, Online Weather, Namis X)

Page 14: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts) • Visual Weather

Page 15: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts) • Visual Weather • ArcGis

Page 16: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts) • Visual Weather • ArcGis

Page 17: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visualisation tools used by operational meteorologists

• Web based browsers • Third party visualisation tools (e.g. ecCharts) • Visual Weather • ArcGis • WeatherEye / Visual Cortex

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Visual Weather – Main Panel

Page 19: Visualisation at the Met Office · A quick introduction to the Met Office ~ 400 operational meteorologists Ops Centre, Exeter Deployed to over 30 frontline stations including frontline

Visual Weather – Main Panel

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor 12 hr rainfall accumulation

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Visual Weather – Map Editor 850 hPa Relative Vorticity

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather - Metmorph

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Visual Weather - Metmorph

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Visual Weather - Metmorph

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Visual Weather - Metmorph

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Visual Weather - Metmorph

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Visual Weather – Feature Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather – Map Editor

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Visual Weather - meteochart

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Future Challenges

•New Cray Supercomputers fully operational by Winter 2017 •Improvements to NWP (by end of 2018)

• GM to around 10-12KM; 120 or 140 vertical levels • UKV to 1KM with hourly runs to T+54 (2 runs per day to T+120) 120 or 140 vertical levels over an expanded domain

• Data volumes will be massive • By April 2017 estimate an 4-fold increase in data volumes to 24 Terabytes from operational models! (~ 407 Blurays per day!!) • Of this 11 Terabytes will be MOGREPs-UK (currently 0.88TB)

THE ONLY SOLUTION AT THE MOMENT IS WMS !!

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Some operational WMS

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Some operational WMS

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Some operational WMS

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Some operational WMS

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