[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #86573] History for How do I make sure that the width of output files of MET is the same?

[John Halley Gotway via RT]

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Hello,


I have been a user of METv4.0 and have a set of post-process programs to analyze the long term forecast performance. But they can not work since I employed the METv7.0 here, because the width of each line in different series analyzed files are not the same so that I can not separate and locate them accurately. I am not sure how I should operate the command or option or Configuration file to make sure that the width of output files are fixed instead of changed by the different examined time or leading time or domain areas.


The attached are my cases for surface observation test.


I am looking forward to your news.


Thank you so much.


Best wishes.


Yu Xin    

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Subject: How do I make sure that the width of output files of MET is the same?
From: John Halley Gotway
Time: Mon Aug 13 11:44:23 2018

Yu,

I see that you're wondering if MET uses a fixed-width format for
writing
its output.  The answer is no, it does not.  Several options in the
configuration file are written directly to the output file.  For
example,
the "model" name and "desc" entries are passed through from the config
file
to the output.  We have no way of knowing how long a user may make
those
strings... so there's no way of knowing ahead of time how wide the
columns
would need to be.

If your post-processing code requires that the columns be a fixed-
width
format, you'd need to post-process them yourself to do so.  And of
course,
MET is open source so you're welcome to change the code in whatever
way
you'd like.

But there is no option for specifying a fixed-width format.

Sorry I don't have a better answer for you.

Thanks,
John

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:55 AM Yu Xin via RT <met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

>
> Mon Aug 13 10:55:09 2018: Request 86573 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by learnerxy at 163.com
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: How do I make sure that the width of output files of
MET is
> the same?
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: learnerxy at 163.com
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=86573 >
>
>
> Hello,
>
>
> I have been a user of METv4.0 and have a set of post-process
programs to
> analyze the long term forecast performance. But they can not work
since I
> employed the METv7.0 here, because the width of each line in
different
> series analyzed files are not the same so that I can not separate
and
> locate them accurately. I am not sure how I should operate the
command or
> option or Configuration file to make sure that the width of output
files
> are fixed instead of changed by the different examined time or
leading time
> or domain areas.
>
>
> The attached are my cases for surface observation test.
>
>
> I am looking forward to your news.
>
>
> Thank you so much.
>
>
> Best wishes.
>
>
> Yu Xin
>

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Subject: How do I make sure that the width of output files of MET is the same?
From: Yu Xin
Time: Mon Aug 13 13:07:04 2018




Hello John,


Thank you for your response to the issue. I am re-editing my code to
adapt it.


Now I have another question based on the cases I sent: Why there is a
significant difference between the statistics of FULL field and user
specified poly domain (ie. xjblnlatlon) with respect to a specified
VAR? what are their correlation? Apparently, the statistic of FULL
field is not reasonable, so I have to recalculate the result based on
some rules?


Regarding


Yu







At 2018-08-14 01:44:24, "John Halley Gotway via RT"
<met_help at ucar.edu> wrote:
>Yu,
>
>I see that you're wondering if MET uses a fixed-width format for
writing
>its output.  The answer is no, it does not.  Several options in the
>configuration file are written directly to the output file.  For
example,
>the "model" name and "desc" entries are passed through from the
config file
>to the output.  We have no way of knowing how long a user may make
those
>strings... so there's no way of knowing ahead of time how wide the
columns
>would need to be.
>
>If your post-processing code requires that the columns be a fixed-
width
>format, you'd need to post-process them yourself to do so.  And of
course,
>MET is open source so you're welcome to change the code in whatever
way
>you'd like.
>
>But there is no option for specifying a fixed-width format.
>
>Sorry I don't have a better answer for you.
>
>Thanks,
>John
>
>On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 10:55 AM Yu Xin via RT <met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:
>
>>
>> Mon Aug 13 10:55:09 2018: Request 86573 was acted upon.
>> Transaction: Ticket created by learnerxy at 163.com
>>        Queue: met_help
>>      Subject: How do I make sure that the width of output files of
MET is
>> the same?
>>        Owner: Nobody
>>   Requestors: learnerxy at 163.com
>>       Status: new
>>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=86573 >
>>
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>>
>> I have been a user of METv4.0 and have a set of post-process
programs to
>> analyze the long term forecast performance. But they can not work
since I
>> employed the METv7.0 here, because the width of each line in
different
>> series analyzed files are not the same so that I can not separate
and
>> locate them accurately. I am not sure how I should operate the
command or
>> option or Configuration file to make sure that the width of output
files
>> are fixed instead of changed by the different examined time or
leading time
>> or domain areas.
>>
>>
>> The attached are my cases for surface observation test.
>>
>>
>> I am looking forward to your news.
>>
>>
>> Thank you so much.
>>
>>
>> Best wishes.
>>
>>
>> Yu Xin
>>

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