[Met_help] Bug in MET?

[John Halley Gotway]

Andrew,

FYI, the updated description of the METv1.1 NetCDF point-observation format is now posted on the Documentation page of the MET website:
http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/docs/overview.php

We stripped out the fields that were not being used by the Point-Stat tool.  We did retain 2 vertical level fields that aren't currently being used but may be used in the future.

Please let me know if you have any questions or suggestions.

Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway

Andrew Digby wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> My colleague Cory Davis (who I believe has contacted you before) and I are in 
> the process of upgrading to MET v1.1. We are keen to take advantage of the 
> matched pair output for WRF verifications.
> 
> Can I make a couple of points regarding setup of v1.1 that might be useful to 
> other users?
> 
> 1) It'd be helpful if the netCDF point observation file format document 
> (MET_netcdf_point_obs_format.pdf) is brought up to date, since the observation 
> formats appear to have changed. (Namely, the order of fields in the obs_arr and 
> hdr_arr variables has changed, and dimension maxstr is replaced with maxhdr.)
> 
> 2) I think there's a bug in point_stat.cc in write_mpr():
> 
> the lines:
> 
>    //
>    // MPR line type
>    //
>    if(conf.output_flag(i_fho).ival() != 0 &&
> 
> should be (I think):
> 
>    //
>    // MPR line type
>    //
>    if(conf.output_flag(i_mpr).ival() != 0 &&
> 
> 
> 
> I hope this is useful, and please correct me if any of this is wrong!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Andrew Digby
> 
> Metservice NZ
> 
> 
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