[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #51572] History for MET documentation

[Tressa Fowler via RT]

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Hello,

I have a question regarding something in the MET documentation, in appendix C.  In the discussion of the ESTDEV and BCMSE metrics, shouldn't the last paragraph of that section state that the ESTDEV is equivalent to BCRMSE (not BCMSE), since a square root has already been taken?  This appears to be the way that MET calculates it as well, as ESTDEV is the square root of BCMSE in the output files.  I'm just trying to make sure I understand how all of these things are calculated.

Thanks for your help and for your work on MET!

Russ  


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Department of Atmospheric Science
Colorado State University
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Subject: MET documentation
From: Tressa Fowler
Time: Fri Dec 16 10:45:58 2011

Hi Russ,

Yes, ESTDEV should be equivalent to BCRMSE. Thanks for catching our
typo. I'll update the documentation.

Tressa

On Fri Nov 18 15:26:52 2011, russ.schumacher at colostate.edu wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have a question regarding something in the MET documentation, in
>    appendix C.  In the discussion of the ESTDEV and BCMSE metrics,
>    shouldn't the last paragraph of that section state that the
ESTDEV
>    is equivalent to BCRMSE (not BCMSE), since a square root has
>    already been taken?  This appears to be the way that MET
calculates
>    it as well, as ESTDEV is the square root of BCMSE in the output
>    files.  I'm just trying to make sure I understand how all of
these
>    things are calculated.
>
> Thanks for your help and for your work on MET!
>
> Russ
>
>
> --
> Russ S. Schumacher
> Assistant Professor
> Department of Atmospheric Science
> Colorado State University
> e-mail: russ.schumacher at colostate.edu
> phone: 970.491.8084
> web: http://www.atmos.colostate.edu/faculty/schumacher.php
>
>
>



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