[Met_help] point_stat in v2 Beta

[John Halley Gotway]

Jonathan,

Glad it's finally working well for you.  Going through these steps with you will help us in updating the instructions in the User's Guide.

Thanks,
John

Case, Jonathan (MSFC)[] wrote:
> John,
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> I want to thank you for steering me to use point_stat in MET v2 Beta.  I
> just ran point_stat with a single station subset for a narrow time
> window around one forecast output time.  Unlike METv1.1 which used ALL
> observations in the pb2nc output file to compute error stats, the
> METv2beta output from point_stat  only used the observation(s) occurring
> in the valid_beg and valid_end time window that I passed point_stat.   
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> This is definitely a much more desirable way to handle the verification
> stats in point_stat as opposed to the method in METv1.1.  Now, I only
> need to run pb2nc once (which tends to take a LONG time to complete when
> processing the global PREPBUFR gdas1.* files), and can then run any
> combination of point_stat which seems to run quite fast.
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> Once again, thanks for all your recent help.  I think the two of us have
> single-handedly populated the MET help emails in the last 2 weeks!
> 
> Jonathan
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