[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #39863] History for Question regarding MODE NetCDF output.

[RAL HelpDesk {for John Halley Gotway}]

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John,

Thanks for your help with getting MET running on my personal machine 
back in June.
I have a question about the NetCDF files that are created when running 
MODE.  I am curious why no variables or attributes that describe the 
valid/forecast time are included in the file.  Most of the other 
programs that produce NetCDF files seem to have the time information 
listed as either a variable or an attribute (pcp_combine, grid_stat, 
pb2nc), but not the ones produced by MODE or wavelet_stat.  I realize 
that I can get this from the naming conventions of the file and modify 
the file myself to add this information, but am wondering why it was not 
included in the file by default.  Was this selected for a design reason?

Thanks for the help,

Ben


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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #39863] Question regarding MODE NetCDF output.
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Thu Aug 05 10:14:19 2010

Ben,

I created a met_help ticket for this question in order to include in
the
support archives.

To answer your question, the answer is no, that omission was not
intentional.  Glad to hear that someone is actually using the NetCDF
output of the MODE and Wavelet-Stat tools!

We're working on finishing up changes for METv3.0 right now.  I'll add
this task to the list - making sure that the timing information is
listed
as variable attributes in the NetCDF output of MODE and Wavelet-Stat
in
the same way as the other MET tools.

Thank you for pointing out the omission.

Thanks,
John

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> Thu Aug 05 10:09:33 2010: Request 39863 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by johnhg
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: Question regarding MODE NetCDF output.
>        Owner: johnhg
>   Requestors: bschwedl at purdue.edu
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=39863 >
>
>
> John,
>
> Thanks for your help with getting MET running on my personal machine
> back in June.
> I have a question about the NetCDF files that are created when
running
> MODE.  I am curious why no variables or attributes that describe the
> valid/forecast time are included in the file.  Most of the other
> programs that produce NetCDF files seem to have the time information
> listed as either a variable or an attribute (pcp_combine, grid_stat,
> pb2nc), but not the ones produced by MODE or wavelet_stat.  I
realize
> that I can get this from the naming conventions of the file and
modify
> the file myself to add this information, but am wondering why it was
not
> included in the file by default.  Was this selected for a design
reason?
>
> Thanks for the help,
>
> Ben
>



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