[Met_help] mask_sid field

[Paul Oldenburg]

Jackie,

If it is displaying the list of stations, it is reading that file fine. The
problem must then be the contents of the observation file. In the observation
file, are those names correct (case sensitive), are they listed as surface obs
(ADPSFC, not ADPUPA), is the time window big enough (test by making bigger)? You
can look at the observation file she created using the ncdump utility.

Paul


jackie.miller at vaisala.com wrote:
> Hi Paul,
> 
> The text file containing station names was just a space-separated list
> of stations (e.g. stn1 stn2 stn3) all on a single line.  In the
> information displayed while point_stat was running, the proper stations
> were listed but there were 0 pairs for each.
> 
> 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 4:28 PM
> To: Miller Jackie JCM; met_help at ucar.edu
> Subject: Re: [Met_help] mask_sid field
> 
> Jackie,
> 
>>From the information that you provided, it appears that you are using
> the
> mask_sid properly and your expectation is correct.  Did you check your
> list of
> stations for blank lines?  That might trip the system up.
> 
> 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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>> Mobile +1 303 885 3251
>> www.vaisala.com
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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 
>>>
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