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

[Daniel Schaffer]

>From here:

http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/docs/overview.php
MET User's Guide: for Version 1.0 (view pdf file 

I used AdobeReader 7.0

Note that the 0.9 pdf printed fine.

Dan

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On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, John Halley Gotway wrote:

> 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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