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 Magics
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+Magics is the latest generation of the ECMWF's meteorological plotting software and can be either accessed directly through its Python.
 
 Project home: https://software.ecmwf.int/magics
 
+To learn how to use it, have a look at some notebook examples https://github.com/ecmwf/notebook-examples/tree/master/visualisation
+
 Requirements
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