[Met_help] Re: [Fwd: DTC announces release of Version 1 of Model Evaluation Tools (MET)]

[Dr. John Huddleston]

Barbara,

I have successfully built and run the scripts test for the Linux 
environment for NCEP/EMC users.

I will build and test it under the Windows Cygwin environment next.

Thank you

Dr. John M. Huddleston, PE
Software Applications Development Team Leader
Systems Integration Branch
NCEP Central Operations
301-763-8000 x7136

Barbara Brown wrote:
> Dear MET beta users,
>
> I apologize if you have already received the attached message, but we 
> wanted to be sure that all of you received this notice about Version 1 
> of the Model Evaluation Tools.
>
> Many of you provided useful comments on MET that were taken into 
> account as we put together the current release - we greatly appreciate 
> your feedback, which led to significant improvements to MET. We hope 
> you'll continue to let us know about problems you encounter and 
> improvements and enhancements that you would like to have included in 
> future releases.
>
> Best regards from the
> MET development team
> met_help at ucar.edu
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     DTC announces release of Version 1 of Model Evaluation 
> Tools (MET)
> Date:     Mon, 07 Jan 2008 13:48:02 -0700
> From:     Barbara Brown <bgb at ucar.edu>
> Organization:     National Center for Atmospheric Research / RAL
> To:     wrf-news at ucar.edu
>
>
>
> Dear WRF Users,
>
> The MET Development Team at the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) 
> proudly announce the formal release of their verification software, 
> the Model Evaluation Tools (MET) version 1.0, available on the MET 
> website:  http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users
>
> MET is designed to be a highly-configurable, state-of-the-art suite of 
> verification tools. MET was developed using output from the Weather 
> Research and Forecasting (WRF) modeling system may but has been 
> applied to the output of other modeling systems as well. MET provides 
> a variety of verification techniques for gridded numerical weather 
> forecasts, including:
>
>  * Standard verification scores comparing gridded model data to
>    point-based observations
>  * Standard verification scores comparing gridded model data to
>    gridded analyses
>  * Object-based verification method comparing gridded model data to
>    gridded observations
>
> Additional verification techniques and analysis tools will be 
> supported for community use in the future, depending on interest and 
> availability of resources.  Please visit:  
> http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users for more information on MET, 
> including download and installation instructions.
>
> We thank those of you who volunteered as beta testers.  Many of you 
> provided valuable feedback that provided us with ideas on how to 
> improve MET.  Changes since the beta version include bug fixes, two 
> new tools (the VSDB-analysis tool and the MODE-analysis tool), the 
> inclusion of derived quantities, and a variety of other improvements.
>
> Thanks to the U.S. Air Force Weather Agency for their support of this 
> work.  Thanks also to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric 
> Administration for their support of the Developmental Testbed Center.
>
> Sincerely,
> The MET Development Team
> Barbara Brown, Lacey Holland, John Halley Gotway, Randy Bullock, Eric 
> Gilleland, and David Ahijevych
> met_help at ucar.edu
>
>
>