[Met_help] mask_sid field

[John Halley Gotway]

Jackie,

I just wanted to follow up to find out if your issue is resolved.  If you have more questions or issues, just let us know.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway
met_help at ucar.edu

Paul Oldenburg wrote:
> 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.
>>
>> Phone +1 303 885 3251 
>> 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 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.
>>>
>>> Phone +1 303 885 3251 
>>> 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 
>>>>
>>>> Mobile +1 303 885 3251
>>>>
>>>> www.vaisala.com
>>>>
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