METplus in a Windows OS-based ArcGIS Pro python environment?

[fortworthjack]

As I progress through the course, making use of the AWS environment provided for the course, and unsure if it , or another, would be available after the course, I've been wondering if it might be possible to add METplus and its components to a rather rich python environment that comes with ArcGIS Pro. ArcGIS is Windows-based. Anyone know if it might be too heavy a lift to try? If it is possible, might there be any instructions out there.

Below is a screenshot of some of the packages already available, and what resulted as I used conda to add dateutil, which I saw an exercise or two back.

Don't get me wrong, I'm fine/happy taking the course in the provided environment, but at some point I might want to integrate some of the METplus workflows with others I'm more familiar with, hence my wondering.

[TaraJensen]

Jack,

I see you are interested in installation options in a Windows/ArcGIS framework. We do not have experience with installing METplus in that type of environment and I am skeptical it will work. For Windows machines, we typically recommend using METplus in a container, as it better emulates the Linux environment METplus was designed to work in.

For more information on how to install METplus via containers, please see the DTC NWP Containers On-line tutorial at: https://dtcenter.org/community-code/numerical-weather-prediction-nwp-containers

METplus and MET containers are available on DockerHub. Please see our Existing Builds page for more information: https://dtcenter.org/community-code/metplus/metplus-4-0-existing-builds

Let us know if you need further help.

[fortworthjack]

Thank you. I'll read up more on the Docker/Container approach, and pursue those.

[georgemccabe]

Jack, I'd like to follow up to note that while utilizing Docker has been the easiest approach I have taken to use METplus on a Windows machine, I have also successfully installed METplus in a WSL (Windows Subsystem for Linux) environment.

[fortworthjack]

Interesting, thanks George. I believe I previously set up WSL on my machine, to handle other go-between processes, so if there are any rough instructions out there on how to accomplish an install, I'd be interested in taking a gander.

[georgemccabe]

Hi Jack, I followed the instructions to install on a Linux machine to install in WSL. Those instructions can be found under the "Sample Script for Compiling External Libraries and MET" heading of the MET Download Page. I don't recall any differences in the installation process specific to WSL.

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