[Met_help] Re: MET FEEDBACK from Dan Schaffer (fwd)

[John Halley Gotway]

Dan,

I wanted to follow up on the issue you had printing the MET User's Guide.  Can you tell me...
(1) which version of the user's guide were you trying to print, from the METv1.0/doc directory, or did you download it from the Doc/Pub section of MET website?  They should be identical anyway.
(2) what program were you using to view and print the document (acrobat, xpdf, ...)?

I was able to print it just fine using Acrobat, but I'm wondering if there are issues with other PDF viewers.

Thanks,
John

Daniel Schaffer wrote:
> Thanks for your quick response John.
> 
>> 4. It should actually be pretty easy to run MET on variables other than
>> precip.  That was our goal in using configuration files.  Take a look in
>> the MET User's Guide for a discussion of how to edit the configuration
>> files for each tool to run it on whatever field(s) are in your input Grib
>> files.
>>
>> Point_Stat: See section 4.3.2 of the MET User's Guide and look at the
>> vx_grib_code parameter.
>> Grid_Stat: See section 5.3.2 of the MET User's Guide and look at the
>> vx_grib_code parameter.
>> MODE: See section 6.3.2 of the MET User's Guide and look at the
>> fcst_grib_code and obs_grib_code parameters.
> I did take advantage of these configurable parameters (although since it appeared that my particular field, Vertically Integrated Liquid as a representation of convection does not appear to be one of the GRIB codes, I had to add a grib code).
> 
> However, what was more concerning is that the code calls read_pcp_combine_netcdf.cc which appears to hard-wire in the fact that the variable in the netcdf file must be called "precip" and that there must be an "accum_time" attribute.  Is there something I'm still missing here?
> 
> All that said, I'm really in good shape right now so these are more of academic questions/observations that you may want to think about for MET 2.0.
> 
> Dan
> 
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