MET Online Tutorial for METv1.1

Welcome to the MET Online Tutorial

  • This tutorial has been designed for use with METv1.1 released in July 2008.
  • This tutorial describes step-by-step how to compile, configure, and run MET.
  • We recommend that you work through this tutorial before you try to run MET on your own.
  • For comments or help concerning this page (or other MET issues) please send email to met_help@ucar.edu.

Thanks for the support!

Many thanks are owed to the Air Force Weather Agency and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for their support of MET and the development of this tutorial. Thanks also go to the registered MET users and the MET workshop participants for your feedback and ideas. Thanks also go to the staff at the Developmental Testbed Center for their help, advice, and many types of support.

Using the MET Online Tutorial

Throughout this tutorial, the following conventions are used:
  • Bold font is used for directory and filenames and occasionally to simply indicate emaphasis.
  • Bold and italic font is used for things to be typed on the command line, configurable items, and executable names.

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