[Met_help] MET

[Elena Novakovskaia]

Hi,

My team uses METv1.0 to validate WRF forecast against surface observations.
We have both WRF forecast and "point obs" in NetCDF format.

1. Is there any option in PointStat utility to compute statistics using WRF
output in netCDF? Below is a segment from PointStat where I can see the
check for Grib forecast:

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void process_fcst_files() {

   // Open the forecast file as a Grib file.
   if( !(fcst_gb_file.open(fcst_file)) ) {
      cerr << "\n\nERROR: process_fcst_files() -> "
           << "can't open grib file: "
           << fcst_file << "\n\n" << flush;
      exit(1);
   }

   // If provided, open up the climatology file as a Grib file.
   if(climo_flag == 1) {

      if( !(climo_gb_file.open(climo_file)) ) {
         cerr << "\n\nERROR: process_fcst_files() -> "
              << "can't open climatology file: ")
              << climo_file << "\n\n" << flush;
         exit(1);
      }
   }

   return;
}

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2. Is there any post-processing tool which converts netCDF into Grib to be
used in PointStat utility?

3. In the test script "test_point_stat.sh" in METv1.0 there is a reference
to "sample_pb.nc". To execute this test script, is there any sample file
"sample_pb.nc" specifically with sample surface observations available for
download?

Thank you,
Elena Novakovskaia