[Met_help] question about point station verification

[John Halley Gotway]

LJ,

The METv1.0 tarball available on the website has NOT been updated with the fixes listed on the "known problems" page.  Sorry for the inconvenience, but you'll need to grab those manually.

We're getting ready for the release of METv1.1 in the next month or so which will include some upgrades and many bug fixes.  I suggest you grab the new version when I becomes available.  We'll send 
out an email to all the registered users at that point.

Regarding your question, we require users to specify a masking region to define the areas over which they would like to accumulate their statistics.  In Point-Stat, those masking regions may either be 
a grid, a polyline, or the name of individual stations.  If you'd like to accumulate statistics over your entire domain, I'd suggest defining a lat/lon polyline that fully encompasses your domain. 
Then list that polyline in the configuration file.  The polyline does not need to be exactly along the boundary of your domain.  Instead, just choose 4 lat/lon corner points that fully encompass your 
domain.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
John Halley-Gotway
johnhg at ucar.edu

RUAN Tao wrote:
> MET help,
> 
>     I would like to use the MET to verify the WRF output with my
> observation data. But as mentioned in the USER guide, for point-stat
> tools, a mask_grids is needed, and any new grid would require code
> changes.  Does that means I have to change the code for my case? Are
> some options like those in model for defining the grid available? If
> not, perhaps it is quite difficult for others employing MET to verify
> their own case.
> 
>     How can I do for using MET in my case?  Meanwhile, I find some bug
> fixes are available. And If I download the MET now , do I need to
> replace those fixes?
> 
>      Thank you for any information.
> 
> 
> LJ(RUAN Tao)
> 
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