[Met_help] Running point stat

[John Halley Gotway]

Kemal,

Great.  Glad it's working for you!

If you have any questions about interpreting the output, I'd refer you to one of the statisticians in our group.  They have a lot of good advice to offer.

Thanks,
John

Gurer, Kemal at ARB wrote:
> Hello John,
> 
> I really appreciate your help. Yes, that was the problem. The funny
> thing is that, however, the original point observation file that I had
> created has the "ADPSFC" in it. When I converted that to point file, I
> don't understand how it omitted "D". I must have used an earlier version
> of it. We have a saying: Two eyes are better than one. I might miss a
> very subtle mistake. But, when someone else looks at it, he/she might
> catch it right away.
> 
> Now, I need to start studying the output, which is another story.
> 
> You are great. Thank you so much for your help again. Have a wonderful
> day.
> 
> Kemal.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Halley Gotway [mailto:johnhg at rap.ucar.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:56 AM
> To: Gurer, Kemal at ARB
> Cc: met_help
> Subject: Re: [Met_help] Running point stat
> 
> Kemal,
> 
> Good news.  I found the problem.  It's just a typo in the message type
> that you're using for your point observations.  You're using "APSFC" as
> the message type, when it should be "ADPSFC".  Try
> correcting that typo and rerunning.  Hopefully that'll fix the problem.
> 
> John
> 
> Gurer, Kemal at ARB wrote:
>> Hi John,
>>
>> Since you have the input GRIB and netcdf data, if you could try to
>> replicate the problem, that would be really big help. I would
> appreciate
>> any help that you could give since I am only at the beginning of my
> MET
>> experience. 
>>
>> Thank you for your consideration of my request for help.
>>
>> Kemal.
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: John Halley Gotway [mailto:johnhg at rap.ucar.edu] 
>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:02 AM
>> To: Gurer, Kemal at ARB
>> Cc: met_help
>> Subject: Re: [Met_help] Running point stat
>>
>> Kemal,
>>
>> Thank you very much for sending the details of the MM5 to GRIB
>> conversion process.  I passed them along to the other MET user.
>>
>> Good luck debugging the date issue with the GRIB file.  While I
> wouldn't
>> be able to help much in debugging the MM5 to GRIB conversion step, I'd
>> be happy to answer any questions you may have about
>> running those GRIB files in MET.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>> Gurer, Kemal at ARB wrote:
>>> Hello John,
>>>
>>> Thank you for contacting me on this issue. In fact, let me give you a
>>> new tar file in which there is one hour of MM5 data with all steps of
>>> converting MM5 sigma levels to pressure, then into grib1 files, and
>> then
>>> running MET on the output files, including all source code, so other
>>> user can go through the steps after we figure out what to do. I am
>> also
>>> including a README.1st file that I wrote to remember how I did all
>> these
>>> calculations in the future file within compare.with.MET subdirectory
>>> which explains the process step by step. Most important step is
>>> MM5toGRIB routine which was provided by scientists in Spain. 
>>>
>>> I placed the new tar file to our anonymous site for you to retrieve:
>>>
>>> ftp://eos.arb.ca.gov/pub/outgoing/kgurer/MET.error.tar.bz2
>>>
>>> You can get the source code for MM5toGRIB module including many other
>>> utilities from here:
>>>
>>> http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/mm5/mm5v3/util.html
>>>
>>> (in the middle of that web page, you will see the link for
> MM5toGRIB).
>>>  
>>> You will find compiled MM5toGRIB code in my tar file, as well.
>>>
>>> As I was writing this e-mail, I got your next e-mail with your
>>> suggestions to debug the problem. In fact, that is exactly what I
>>> thought. I tried "FULL" in spatial comparisons. And, I checked the
>> time
>>> periods. Only thing that didn't quite make sense is the order of
> grib1
>>> file based on the help given in README file in MM5toGRIB
> subdirectory:
>>> http://www.ecmwf.int/publications/manuals/libraries/gribex/ksec1.html
>>>
>>> It seems like the order of parameters (particularly the date) written
>> in
>>> grib1 file is not correct, based on the above link. I am still trying
>> to
>>> debug it.
>>>
>>> Thank you very much for helping me on this issue. I will still follow
>>> your suggestions one more time to find the problem. 
>>>
>>> With regards,
>>>
>>> Kemal.