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<p class=MsoNormal>Hello MET users,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I’m just getting started with point_stat, and I was
wondering how should I pair up the OBS with the GRIB FCST files? <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>In my first attempt, I gave point_stat a single WRF forecast
file valid at 21z, along with a whole day’s worth of observations
converted over using pb2nc. At first glance, it looks like pb2nc
took all the observations and differences them against the single forecast
output file. I suspect this is what happened because I specified a
single observation site in mask_stations (KHSV), I saw a TOTAL count of 26 in
the point_stat_....._cnt.txt file. This seems to suggest that point_stat
used all observations from the daily netcdf file to verify the single forecast
time. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Therefore, should I be merging all the individual hourly WRF
GRIB files into a single file containing all the times? Or should I be
parsing the observations differently when running pb2nc? <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Thanks in advance for the suggestions.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jonathan Case, ENSCO, Inc.</span>
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Engineering Division</span> <br>
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and Transition Center</span> <br>
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<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Emails: Jonathan.Case-1@nasa.gov<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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case.jonathan@ensco.com<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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