[Met_help] Met_help post from derek.stratman at noaa.gov requires approval

[John Halley Gotway]

Derek,

I'll be happy to help you figure this out.  However, before I'm able to provide you with direct assistance, you'll need to fill out the free registration form on the MET website.  Go to:
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Please let me know when you've registered, and I can help you with this.

Thanks,
John

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> First, allow me to introduce myself.  I'm a meteorology graduate student at Oklahoma 
> University, and my Master's research entails using MET in the verification of storm scale 
> models.  My research advisor is Mike Coniglio of NOAA/NSSL, and I'm also working with Tara 
> Jensen of NCAR/DTC and Steve Koch of GSD.  
> 
> Recently, I've successfully ran the GridStat tool in MET, but I have a question about the 
> output from GridStat and the other MET tools, as well.  When a calculation fails due to 
> missing data, the MET tools output "N/A" in place of a numeric value.  Is it possible to output 
> a numeric value, such as "-999", instead?  
> 
> I'm using NCL to read in the data and then plot it, but it's difficult to read in data with "N/A" 
> stuck in at random places.  NCL can skip those "N/A"s, but that also means it skips individual 
> columns, which offsets the data in each column. 
> 
> Thanks so much for the future help!
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> Derek Stratman  
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