[Met_help] Precip observations in MET

[John Halley Gotway]

Lorena and Victor,

This question has come up a lot.  We'd like to figure out an easy way for users to incorporate ASCII observations into MET.  I'm wondering if you'd be willing to work with me on developing a
conversion tool that takes ASCII observations in a format similar to the one you've described and reformat them into the NetCDF format that Point-Stat expects?

So I'm wondering, if I was to provide you with some code for doing this, would you be willing to test it out on your system and let me know how things go?

Hopefully we could figure out a solution and include it in the next release of MET.

If you'd be willing to work with you on this, could you please send me a couple of your forecast files and corresponding sets of ASCII observations? I'll use them to test out the code I write before
sending it to you.  Otherwise, if you'd like to do it yourself, I could provide you with some more info on how to do it.

Thanks and please let me know,
John Halley Gotway

Victor Homar wrote:
> Dear Srs,
> 
> We are trying to use MET V1.0 to verify simulations of severe weather in
> the western Mediterranean. Observations are given by various regional
> met services in ASCII format.
> 
> Since we do not have our reports in BUFR, and following the User's
> Guide, we are trying to convert the 24h-precip reports to a netcdf
> intermediate file, as described in page 3-10 of the User's Guide. To do
> so, we are using R's package ncdf but do not succeed in creating the new
> file. A report in our database consists of: {Lat, Lon, Hgt, Date, Obs.
> precip}.
> 
> Is there any simple way to incorporate these data to the MET suite? It
> is troubling to fill fields such as: "Vertical level", "Pressure level"
> or "Reason code" from our 24h acc. precip reports. Any suggestions?
> 
> Many thanks in advance,
> 
> Lorena and Víctor.
>