[Met_help] Point-Stat Tool --- Point Observation Component Issue

[Waylon.Collins]

Dear Sir or Madam,

My goal is to generate verification statistics using the Point-Stat Tool 
by comparing point observations with WRF-ARW gridded forecast output. 
With respect to the Point-Stat Tool, I understand that the netCDF 
obs_file should be created from pb2nc or ascii2nc. I do not have access 
to data in prepbufr format, thus ascii2nc would be used. However, I will 
be preparing verification statistics based on 3 months of data, every 
3-months, time resolution of 3 hours, for 5-10 observation points. 
Manually creating files to match the 10 column ASCII Point Observation 
Format as input into ascii2nc is not practical. I need an efficient 
method to create the obs_file as input into point_stat. I have access to 
the observations in netCDF format used by AWIPS. Attached is the output 
from the linux command "ncdump -h" applied to one of these files. Do you 
have software that will either (1) convert my AWIPS netCDF files into 
the netCDF flavor required by point_stat, or (2) input my AWIPS netCDF 
files and output an ASCII file containing the data in the 10 column 
ASCII Point Observation Format required by ascii2nc?

Waylon 

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Waylon Collins (Senior Forecaster)
NOAA/National Weather Service
300 Pinson Drive
Corpus Christi, TX 78406
(United States)
Telephone: (361) 289-0959                                                        


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