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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
Model Evaluation Tools (MET) development team at the DTC is pleased to announce the release of the MET
version 5.0 verification package. It is available for download from the MET
Users web page: </span><a href="http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users</span></a></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
changes for this new version are detailed in the release notes found at (</span><a href="http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/release_notes/METv5.0_release_notes.php" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/release_notes/METv5.0_release_notes.php</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">)Updates include the addition of
auto-conf to streamline compilation. This represents a major change in
the directory structure of MET. Please see the README file in the
top-level directory of the distribution bundle for directions on how to get
started.<span style> </span>Our online tutorial is being
updated to reflect the changes and will be available in the very near future.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Also
included in the release are updates to the GRIB1 and GRIB2 tables to be
consistent with NCEP's usage; additional continuous, categorical and
neighborhood statistics; a new MODE summary graphics generation tool; enhanced
MET-TC event equalization logic; refined logic for defining a consensus track
in MET-TC and refined logic for defining Rapid Intensification/Rapid Weakening
(RI/RW) in MET-TC.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We
hope that MET v5.0 enhances your model verification efforts. Please send any
comments or questions to </span><a href="mailto:met_help@ucar.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:rgb(12,77,179)">met_help@ucar.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">.</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thank
you,</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The
MET development team</span></p>
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<br clear="all"><br>-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Tara Jensen<br></div>Associate Scientist III</div><div>NCAR RAL and DTC<br></div></div>PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA<br>+1 303-497-8479 <a href="mailto:jensen@ucar.edu" target="_blank">jensen@ucar.edu</a><br></div></div>
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