[Met_help] Successful MET installation

[John Halley Gotway]

Litta,

Great.  I'm glad you got it working.

Now, about using TRMM observations files, unfortunately, it's going to take some work to use them in MET.  I assume you'll want to use the TRMM rainfall data which is available in HDF format.  Is that
correct?

You'll need to decide if you'd like to treat those observations as a gridded product and do a grid-to-grid verification?  Or do you want to treat them just as a bunch of point and do grid-to-point
verification?  Either way, it'll be your responsibility to reformat those observations as necessary for use in MET.  I do know some other users have worked with TRMM data in the past, but I don't have
any details on how they actually used the observations in MET.

Thanks,
John

Litta A J wrote:
> Dear sir,
> 
> Thank you very much for your valuable suggestion... I am very glad to inform
> you that, I have successfully installed and completed test run. I got all
> output files as specified. I am attaching the test_all.log file.  I 'll try
> to do my own model results. I like to compare WRF - ARW and NMM model
> precipitation with TRMM data.
> 
> *Thank you once again for your timely help and valuable suggestions through
> out the MET installation process .......*
> **
> with best regards,
> Litta
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> On Wed, Feb 24, 2010 at 8:07 PM, John Halley Gotway <johnhg at ucar.edu> wrote:
> 
>> Litta,
>>
>> Great, I'm glad you got it compiled.  Thanks for sending that log file.  It
>> makes it very easy to diagnose the problem.
>>
>> When the MET tools are run, some of them use some data files that are
>> distributed with the MET package.  At compile time, the code remembers the
>> path where it was built, and uses that path the find
>> those data files it needs at run time.  So if you were to compile MET in on
>> directory and then move it to a different directory, you'd see these types
>> of error messages.  The error messages are just
>> saying that it can't find those data files it's looking for.
>>
>> Here's something I'd like you to try... try setting the environment
>> variable "MET_BASE" to the full path for the top-level METv2.0 directory.
>>  Here's how you'd do it using the C-shell:
>> setenv MET_BASE /full/path/to/METv2.0
>>
>> And then try rerunning the test scripts.  If that works, then just put the
>> MET_BASE definition into your shell configuration file (.cshrc for C-shell).
>>
>> Thanks,
>> John
>>
>>
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