[Met_help] MET toolkit

[Paul Oldenburg]

John,

I'll have a look at this situation when she uploads her data.  I just checked
and it is not there yet.

Paul

John Halley Gotway wrote:
> Jackie,
> 
> I'm forwarding your message to the "met_help at ucar.edu" email address. 
> Unfortunately, I'm out of the office at all week.  I'm with my son's who's
> recovering from a burst appendix.  He's recovering nicely, but we'll be
> here with him all week.
> 
> Perhaps one of the other MET team members could help you figure out why
> you're not getting verification output for 10-meter winds.  I'd really
> suggest sending us the files you're using to run Point-Stat:
> (1) Forecast GRIB file
> (2) NetCDF point observation file
> (3) Point-Stat configuration file
> (4) Any files you're using to define the masking verification regions
> 
> You can post them to our anonymous ftp site:
>   ftp ftp.rap.ucar.edu
>   username=anonymous
>   password="your email address"
>   cd incoming/irap/met_help/miller_data
>   put "your files"
>   bye
> 
> I suspect that there's some issue preventing you from finding any matched
> pairs for 10-meter winds.  When you run Point-Stat with the "-v 2" option,
> it should tell you how many matched pairs it found for 10-meter winds.  I
> suspect that's 0.
> 
> I should be available to help out sometime next week.
> 
> Thanks,
> John
> 
>> Hi John,
>>
>>
>>
>> I just wanted to touch base again about the grid_stat output.  I went
>> ahead and interrogated the input grib file like you recommended using
>> the following command.
>>
>> wgrib in_file.grib | egrep "33|34|11"
>>
>> And here is a screenshot of the first few lines of the output:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> As you suspected, the kpds7 value was "2" for temp and "10" for U and V.
>> So I went back and changed the config file to:
>>
>>
>>
>> fcst_field[] = [ "7/Z0","7/P850","7/P500","7/P250","33/Z10",
>>
>>                "34/Z10","33/P850","34/P850","33/P500",
>>
>>                  "34/P500","33/P250","34/P250","11/Z0",
>>
>>                "11/P850","11/P500","11/P250" ];
>>
>> And the output file that was created did not return results for the UGRD
>> and VGRD at 10 meters.  Am I missing something?  I tried with Z0 and got
>> the same result.  Just to see what would happen, I tried the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> fcst_field[] = [ "7/Z0","7/P850","7/P500","7/P250","33/P1000",
>>
>>                "34/P1000","33/P850","34/P850","33/P500",
>>
>>                  "34/P500","33/P250","34/P250","11/Z0",
>>
>>                "11/P850","11/P500","11/P250" ];
>>
>>
>>
>> And the output file did include results for the UGRD and VGRD at P1000.
>> Is this the best approach?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Jackie
>>
>>
>>
>> Jackie Miller
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>>
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