[Met_help] mask_sid field

[Paul Oldenburg]

MET Helpers,

Can anyone answer Jackie's question about the mask_sid below?  I don't know what
the answer is.  Thanks,

Paul

jackie.miller at vaisala.com wrote:
> Thanks for the message Paul.  Before I pass along the files, can you
> comment on my question about the mask_sid field in my previous email?
> 
> Thanks for helping!
> Jackie
> 
> Jackie Miller
> Meteorologist
> Vaisala Inc.
> 
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Paul Oldenburg [mailto:pgoldenb at ucar.edu] 
> Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 2:13 PM
> To: Miller Jackie JCM
> Cc: met_help at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [Met_help] mask_sid field
> 
> 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.
>>
>>  
>>
>> 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?
>>
>>  
>>
>> Thank you for your help!
>>
>> Jackie
>>
>>  
>>
>> Jackie Miller
>>
>> Meteorologist
>>
>> Vaisala Inc.
>>
>>  
>>
>> Phone +1 303 885 3251 
>>
>> Mobile +1 303 885 3251
>>
>> www.vaisala.com
>>
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