[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #62168] History for Problem total precipitation

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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Hello,

I want to use MODE_stat tool (domain1 in attach file)
forecast file I use output form wrf-arw but observation file is problem
I have binary file  from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) and
Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) ,but I cannot convert 
binary file to grib1 (TRMM variable total precipitation = r , Wrf-ARW 
variable total precipitation = apcp) what will I do ?
and you can introduce dataset download  Global Precipitation Daily 
Observations  in Grib1 format ?

                                                            Thank you
K.sujira



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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #62168] Problem total precipitation
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Thu Jul 11 10:28:26 2013

Sujira,

It sounds like you're looking for a source of TRMM global
precipitation data in a format that MET can handle.  We do have a page
on the MET website with links to observation datasets:
     http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/downloads/observation_data.php

And there is a source for TRMM data listed there, as well as an
Rscript that can be used to convert the ASCII TRMM data into a NetCDF
format that MET can read.  So I'd suggest doing the following:
(1) Select one of the TRMM data sources (3-hourly or 24-hourly).
(2) Retrieve the ASCII version of that TRMM data, being sure to select
a geographic area similar to your model's domain.
(3) Run that data through trmm2nc.R script.
(4) Your the GRIB1 output from WRF through copygb to regrid it to the
same domain as the TRMM data.
(5) Use MODE to compare the regridded GRIB1 WRF data to the NetCDF
TRMM data.

Unfortunately, TRMM is not available in GRIB format.  But the steps
listed above should do the trick.

Hope that helps.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway
met_help at ucar.edu

On 07/10/2013 03:51 AM, sujira at haii.or.th via RT wrote:
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> Wed Jul 10 03:51:08 2013: Request 62168 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by sujira at haii.or.th
>         Queue: met_help
>       Subject: Problem total precipitation
>         Owner: Nobody
>    Requestors: sujira at haii.or.th
>        Status: new
>   Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=62168 >
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>
> Hello,
>
> I want to use MODE_stat tool (domain1 in attach file)
> forecast file I use output form wrf-arw but observation file is
problem
> I have binary file  from Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)
and
> Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP) ,but I cannot
convert
> binary file to grib1 (TRMM variable total precipitation = r , Wrf-
ARW
> variable total precipitation = apcp) what will I do ?
> and you can introduce dataset download  Global Precipitation Daily
> Observations  in Grib1 format ?
>
>                                                              Thank
you
> K.sujira
>
>

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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #62168] Resolved: Problem total precipitation
From: sujira at haii.or.th
Time: Tue Aug 27 22:00:16 2013

Hi,John

Now, I Interest Series-Analysis Tool. I try to read the MET Users
Guide
4.1, but it is not clear, you are an example tutorial about
Series-Analysis Tool please ?

                                                                Best
regards
                                                                  K.SUJIRA





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