[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #92754] History for New to METplus: help setup for tutorial

Mon Dec 2 15:34:13 MST 2019

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Hello Met support,
I'm new to MET and METplus. Tara Jensen sent me this link
<https://dtcenter.org/community-code/model-evaluation-tools-met/metplus-practical-session-guide-july-2019>
to the latest tutorial for METplus which will be my main focus, and I'm
trying to setup the basic to get started.  I'm working on Hera, where
METplus is already installed, so far I was able to load the following
modules (please let me know if I'm missing any):

   - module use /contrib/modulefiles
   - module load met/8.1
   - module load intel
   - module load anaconda/anaconda2-4.4.0
   - module load nco wgrib R ncview

Do you know the path to the following env in Hera: METPLUS_BUILD_BASE,
MET_BUILD_BASE, and METPLUS_DATA?
I found the build instructions for MET on Theia here
<https://dtcenter.org/met-online-tutorial-metv8-0/tutorial-setup/existing-met-builds>.
Can I assume that MET_BASE and MET_BUILD_BASE are the same?  Are any
configuration steps that I need to add or skip given that METPlus is
already installed on Hera?

Thank you and I appreciate any help you can provide

Tatiana

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Subject: New to METplus: help setup for tutorial
From: David Fillmore
Time: Tue Oct 22 16:28:48 2019

Hi Tatiana -

The MET_BASE env variable points to a directory that contains various
subdirs for shared MET data.
For example, on my system, MET_BASE=<prefix>/share/met.
<prefix> is the MET install dir specified with the --prefix configure
option.
Within MET_BASE are, for instance, the map, poly, and config subdirs,
and several others.
The config subdir there is important, it holds all of the default
config files, one for each MET tool.
Usually users modify one of these default config files to get started.

Not sure about MET_BUILD_BASE on your system, might be METplus
related.
I'll find someone on the METplus team who can reply to your METplus
specific questions.
Do you expect use the MET tools directly or work mostly through
METplus?

cheers,
David

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Subject: New to METplus: help setup for tutorial
From: George McCabe
Time: Tue Oct 22 16:55:58 2019

Hi Tatiana,

All of the variables mentioned here are specific to the tutorial. The
tutorial participants had their environments set up prior to these
instructions so they already had these variables set correctly. FYI,
you do
not need to set MET_BASE and probably should not set it unless it is
already set.

* MET_BUILD_BASE should be set to the location that MET is installed.
Since
you ran module load met/8.1, you should be able to run 'which
point_stat'
and see where it is found. For example, if you run 'which point_stat'
and
you get:

/usr/local/met-8.1.1/bin/point_stat

then you should set MET_BUILD_BASE to /usr/local/met-8.1.1

* METPLUS_BUILD_BASE should be set to path where METplus is located.
This
is the path to a directory called METplus that contains subdirectories
like
ush, parm, and doc. I am not sure where it is found on hera. If it is
not
found there, you will have to get it from GitHub yourself. Let me know
if
you need to do that and I can help you with that.

* METPLUS_DATA is the directory that contains all of the sample data
that
is used for the tutorial. I don't think these are on hera, so you will
need
to download them from the METplus GItHub page and unzip them into a
directory on hera. You should set METPLUS_DATA to that directory. Go
to the
releases page: https://github.com/NCAR/METplus/releases, go down to
METplus
2.2, click on Assets, then download each of the sample_data* files
that are
attached to that release and put them in a folder of your choosing.
Then
run
*tar zxf sample_data**
to untar the data. It should create directories with names that
correspond
to each sample data tarball. Set METPLUS_DATA to this top level
directory.

Please let me know if you have any issues or questions and I will be
happy
to help you.

Thanks,
George

On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:28 PM David Fillmore via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

>
> <URL: https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=92754 >
>
> Hi Tatiana -
>
> The MET_BASE env variable points to a directory that contains
various
> subdirs for shared MET data.
> For example, on my system, MET_BASE=<prefix>/share/met.
> <prefix> is the MET install dir specified with the --prefix
configure
> option.
> Within MET_BASE are, for instance, the map, poly, and config
subdirs, and
> several others.
> The config subdir there is important, it holds all of the default
config
> files, one for each MET tool.
> Usually users modify one of these default config files to get
started.
>
> Not sure about MET_BUILD_BASE on your system, might be METplus
related.
> I'll find someone on the METplus team who can reply to your METplus
> specific questions.
> Do you expect use the MET tools directly or work mostly through
METplus?
>
> cheers,
> David
>

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Subject: New to METplus: help setup for tutorial
From: David Fillmore
Time: Mon Dec 02 15:34:12 2019

Closing initial ticket.

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