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<p class=MsoNormal>John,<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>I want to thank you for steering me to use point_stat in MET
v2 Beta. I just ran point_stat with a single station subset for a narrow
time window around one forecast output time. Unlike METv1.1 which used
ALL observations in the pb2nc output file to compute error stats, the METv2beta
output from point_stat only used the observation(s) occurring in the
valid_beg and valid_end time window that I passed point_stat. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>This is definitely a much more desirable way to handle the
verification stats in point_stat as opposed to the method in METv1.1. Now,
I only need to run pb2nc once (which tends to take a LONG time to complete when
processing the global PREPBUFR gdas1.* files), and can then run any combination
of point_stat which seems to run quite fast.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Once again, thanks for all your recent help. I think the
two of us have single-handedly populated the MET help emails in the last 2
weeks!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Jonathan<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>***********************************************************</span>
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<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Jonathan Case, ENSCO, Inc.</span>
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<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Aerospace Sciences &
Engineering Division</span> <br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Short-term Prediction Research
and Transition Center</span> <br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>320 Sparkman Drive, Room 3062</span>
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<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Huntsville, AL 35805-1912 </span><br>
<span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Voice: (256)
961-7504 Fax: (256) 961-7788</span> <br>
<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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