[Met_help] mask_sid field

[Paul Oldenburg]

Jackie,

I can help you while John is away, but I'd like to have a closer look at the
data you are using.  Please send 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, but I'll have to have a closer look.

Thanks,

Paul

jackie.miller at vaisala.com wrote:
> I have been working with John Halley Gotway for support on the use of
> MET-Toolkit, but I believe he is out of the office until next week.  I
> have come across a question when using the Point_stat tool.
> 
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> 
> To give you a little context, we want to verify a forecast using data
> from 8 different stations (specifically a .txt file of data converted to
> netcdf using the ascii2nc tool).  Originally, we left the mask_sid field
> empty in the config file.  We expected to receive statistics that
> reflected the forecast performance at each of the station locations.
> However, the output was only a few lines long and appeared to group
> together all of the statistics (from each of the stations) for each of
> the variables we requested.  When we realized this, we thought that
> utilizing the mask_sid field might allow us to perform verification at
> each station location.  We created a .txt file with a space-separated
> list of station names (that exactly matched the station names we used in
> Column 2 of the station .txt file we used with point_stat).  With the -v
> 2 option, we saw that there are 0 pairs for each of the station
> locations we specified in the .txt file.  Are we missing something?
> 
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> 
> Thank you for your help!
> 
> Jackie
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> Jackie Miller
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