[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #42900] History for clouds verification

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Dear MET-help team,

During the WRF workshop you announced the possibility of clouds
verification using MET and a gridded dataset of clouds observations. I
would like to verify WRF and GFS using this tool. Is it possible to do so?

Dorita



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Subject: clouds verification
From: Randy Bullock
Time: Mon Dec 20 11:39:45 2010

On Sun Dec 19 06:43:18 2010, rostkier wrote:
> Dear MET-help team,
>
> During the WRF workshop you announced the possibility of clouds
> verification using MET and a gridded dataset of clouds observations.
I
> would like to verify WRF and GFS using this tool. Is it possible to
do so?
>
MET currently can be used with World-Wide Merged Cloud Analysis
(WWMCA)
data.  There is a WWMCA reformatter that can make wwmca files
readable by grid_stat, and also a WWMCA plotting tool.  These are
in MET version 3.0

Right now, that is the extent of MET's cloud verification
capabilities.

Hope this helps.

Randy Bullock

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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #42900] clouds verification
From: rostkier at ucar.edu
Time: Mon Dec 20 22:52:13 2010

Thanks for the information.
Where do I find this dataset (WWMCA)?

Dorita

> On Sun Dec 19 06:43:18 2010, rostkier wrote:
>> Dear MET-help team,
>>
>> During the WRF workshop you announced the possibility of clouds
>> verification using MET and a gridded dataset of clouds
observations. I
>> would like to verify WRF and GFS using this tool. Is it possible to
do
>> so?
>>
> MET currently can be used with World-Wide Merged Cloud Analysis
(WWMCA)
> data.  There is a WWMCA reformatter that can make wwmca files
> readable by grid_stat, and also a WWMCA plotting tool.  These are
> in MET version 3.0
>
> Right now, that is the extent of MET's cloud verification
capabilities.
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Randy Bullock
>



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