[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #64421] History for How to use MET to analyze WRF outputs which are packed together in one file?

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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Dear methelp,
I want to use MET to do point_stat time series analysis.  However, as I set frames_per_outfile=24 in WRF namelist.input, my WRF outputs are packed every 24 hrs in a file.  The UPP only can process the WRF outputs with incrementhr=24, so if I use ./point_stat in MET, I only can get files like .000, .024, .048, and etc.  But I hope to have hourly or 3-hourly bias analysis.  Would you mind giving me some advice?
Thanks a lot,
Best,
Yue 
 		 	   		  

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Subject: Re: [rt.rap.ucar.edu #64421] How to use MET to analyze WRF outputs which are packed together in one file?
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Mon Nov 25 21:03:04 2013

Yue,

Does the .024 file only contain output for the 24-hour forecast file?
Or
does it contains output for hours 00, 01, 02, ..., 24?  You can use
the
wgrib command to dump out the contents of the .024 GRIB file and see
what's in it.

If you only have output for the 24-hour forecast, then no, you don't
have
enough data to verify your data hourly or 3-hourly.  If your GRIB
files do
contain hourly or 3-hourly output, then yes, you can verify the data
the
way you'd like.

Please take a look and let me.

Thanks,
John Halley Gotway
met_help at ucar.edu

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> Mon Nov 25 12:08:44 2013: Request 64421 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by yue.zheng at outlook.com
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: How to use MET to analyze WRF outputs which are packed
> together in one file?
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: yue.zheng at outlook.com
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=64421 >
>
>
> Dear methelp,
> I want to use MET to do point_stat time series analysis.  However,
as I
> set frames_per_outfile=24 in WRF namelist.input, my WRF outputs are
packed
> every 24 hrs in a file.  The UPP only can process the WRF outputs
with
> incrementhr=24, so if I use ./point_stat in MET, I only can get
files like
> .000, .024, .048, and etc.  But I hope to have hourly or 3-hourly
bias
> analysis.  Would you mind giving me some advice?
> Thanks a lot,
> Best,
> Yue
>
>



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