[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #95843] History for CSI and CDF plot

John Halley Gotway via RT met_help at ucar.edu
Wed Jul 8 21:03:56 MDT 2020


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Hello,

This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using MET/METViewer
to for model verification  :

1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained from
MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY: ie. both model
and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those grids that have
either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?

2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI plot?
3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?

Thank you very much.
Binyu


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Subject: CSI and CDF plot
From: Julie Prestopnik
Time: Tue Jul 07 14:47:29 2020

Hi Binyu.

I have assigned this ticket to Tatiana.  Please allow a few business
days
for a response.

Julie

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

>
> Tue Jul 07 14:33:01 2020: Request 95843 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by binyu.wang at noaa.gov
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: CSI and CDF plot
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843 >
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using
MET/METViewer
> to for model verification  :
>
> 1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained from
> MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY: ie. both
model
> and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those grids that
have
> either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?
>
> 2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI plot?
> 3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Binyu
>
>

--
Julie Prestopnik
Software Engineer
National Center for Atmospheric Research
Research Applications Laboratory
Phone: 303.497.8399
Email: jpresto at ucar.edu

My working day may not be your working day.  Please do not feel
obliged to
reply to this email outside of your normal working hours.

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Subject: CSI and CDF plot
From: Tara Jensen
Time: Tue Jul 07 15:56:20 2020

Binyu,

Here are some answers to your questions:

1.  Reli (Reliability), ROC, and Hist diagrams have to be based on
paired
data.  Reliability and ROC are event based scores that require an
observation or analysis value to define whether the event occurred or
not.
By definition, Rank and PIT Histograms are a measure of where the
observation lies within the ranked set of values from the ensemble
members.

I don't think I understand what you mean by  "how about those grids
that
have either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?".  MET does
not
expect the forecast and obs to be in the same file.  It actually
expects
two files to be passed in and it does the heavy lifting of pairing up
the
data for the statistics computation.

2. MET can compute categorical statistics, such as CSI, for each
ensemble
member and the ensemble mean field by passing the members and/or mean
field
into MET individually.  Time series, box plots, and bar plots of CSI
can
then be plotted using METviewer.

3. MET has a new tool called Grid-Diag that computes the PDF of one or
two
fields from a given file.  It could be used to do this for each
ensemble
member and/or ensemble mean fields if desired.  The CDF could then be
derived from the PDF plotted using your own script if you'd like.  We
do
not have plotting support available for the output of the Grid-Diag
tool
yet.

Hopefully this addresses your questions.  Please let us know if it
doesn't.
Cheers, Tara

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

>
> Tue Jul 07 14:33:01 2020: Request 95843 was acted upon.
> Transaction: Ticket created by binyu.wang at noaa.gov
>        Queue: met_help
>      Subject: CSI and CDF plot
>        Owner: Nobody
>   Requestors: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
>       Status: new
>  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843 >
>
>
> Hello,
>
> This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using
MET/METViewer
> to for model verification  :
>
> 1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained from
> MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY: ie. both
model
> and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those grids that
have
> either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?
>
> 2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI plot?
> 3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?
>
> Thank you very much.
> Binyu
>
>

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tara Jensen
Project Manager II
NCAR RAL and DTC
PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
+1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu

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Subject: CSI and CDF plot
From: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
Time: Tue Jul 07 20:20:49 2020

 Helo Tara,

Thank you for the quick response.

Sorry I didn't explain clearly in my first question. Here is an
example for
volcano ash over some area:
Eg: there are 1000 grids that have valid value in the observed file,
950
grids that have valid value in the model. There were only 900 grids
that
were captured both by model and obs. Which means there were 100 grids
detected by obs. ONLY and 50 grids detected by model ONLY.  In my
understanding, currently MET ONLY includes the paired 900 grids for
calculation like HIST, Rely, and ROC, it just ignores the 150 grids
which
are either captched by obs. or by model only, am I correct?

For CSI and Grid-Diag, is there a sample of configure file for that?

Thank you.
Binyu


On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:56 PM Tara Jensen via RT <met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

> Binyu,
>
> Here are some answers to your questions:
>
> 1.  Reli (Reliability), ROC, and Hist diagrams have to be based on
paired
> data.  Reliability and ROC are event based scores that require an
> observation or analysis value to define whether the event occurred
or not.
> By definition, Rank and PIT Histograms are a measure of where the
> observation lies within the ranked set of values from the ensemble
> members.
>
> I don't think I understand what you mean by  "how about those grids
that
> have either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?".  MET
does not
> expect the forecast and obs to be in the same file.  It actually
expects
> two files to be passed in and it does the heavy lifting of pairing
up the
> data for the statistics computation.
>
> 2. MET can compute categorical statistics, such as CSI, for each
ensemble
> member and the ensemble mean field by passing the members and/or
mean field
> into MET individually.  Time series, box plots, and bar plots of CSI
can
> then be plotted using METviewer.
>
> 3. MET has a new tool called Grid-Diag that computes the PDF of one
or two
> fields from a given file.  It could be used to do this for each
ensemble
> member and/or ensemble mean fields if desired.  The CDF could then
be
> derived from the PDF plotted using your own script if you'd like.
We do
> not have plotting support available for the output of the Grid-Diag
tool
> yet.
>
> Hopefully this addresses your questions.  Please let us know if it
doesn't.
> Cheers, Tara
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT <
> met_help at ucar.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Tue Jul 07 14:33:01 2020: Request 95843 was acted upon.
> > Transaction: Ticket created by binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> >        Queue: met_help
> >      Subject: CSI and CDF plot
> >        Owner: Nobody
> >   Requestors: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> >       Status: new
> >  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843 >
> >
> >
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using
MET/METViewer
> > to for model verification  :
> >
> > 1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained from
> > MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY: ie.
both
> model
> > and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those grids
that have
> > either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?
> >
> > 2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI
plot?
> > 3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?
> >
> > Thank you very much.
> > Binyu
> >
> >
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Tara Jensen
> Project Manager II
> NCAR RAL and DTC
> PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
> +1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu
>
>

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Subject: CSI and CDF plot
From: Tara Jensen
Time: Wed Jul 08 11:39:20 2020

Binyu,

You are correct that MET would only retain the 900 points for the
computation of statistics.

Default config files are included in the MET release in the
$MET_BASE/share/met/data/config directory.
You can also view them in our GitHub repository at:
https://github.com/NCAR/MET/tree/master_v9.0/met/data/config.
<https://github.com/NCAR/MET/tree/master_v9.0/met/data/config>
A description of config options can be found in Chapter 3 of the MET
User's
Guide.

Let me know if you have any further questions regarding these issues.
If
not, I'll close this ticket.
Cheers, Tara

On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:21 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

>
> <URL: https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843 >
>
>  Helo Tara,
>
> Thank you for the quick response.
>
> Sorry I didn't explain clearly in my first question. Here is an
example for
> volcano ash over some area:
> Eg: there are 1000 grids that have valid value in the observed file,
950
> grids that have valid value in the model. There were only 900 grids
that
> were captured both by model and obs. Which means there were 100
grids
> detected by obs. ONLY and 50 grids detected by model ONLY.  In my
> understanding, currently MET ONLY includes the paired 900 grids for
> calculation like HIST, Rely, and ROC, it just ignores the 150 grids
which
> are either captched by obs. or by model only, am I correct?
>
> For CSI and Grid-Diag, is there a sample of configure file for that?
>
> Thank you.
> Binyu
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:56 PM Tara Jensen via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
> wrote:
>
> > Binyu,
> >
> > Here are some answers to your questions:
> >
> > 1.  Reli (Reliability), ROC, and Hist diagrams have to be based on
paired
> > data.  Reliability and ROC are event based scores that require an
> > observation or analysis value to define whether the event occurred
or
> not.
> > By definition, Rank and PIT Histograms are a measure of where the
> > observation lies within the ranked set of values from the ensemble
> > members.
> >
> > I don't think I understand what you mean by  "how about those
grids that
> > have either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?".  MET
does not
> > expect the forecast and obs to be in the same file.  It actually
expects
> > two files to be passed in and it does the heavy lifting of pairing
up the
> > data for the statistics computation.
> >
> > 2. MET can compute categorical statistics, such as CSI, for each
ensemble
> > member and the ensemble mean field by passing the members and/or
mean
> field
> > into MET individually.  Time series, box plots, and bar plots of
CSI can
> > then be plotted using METviewer.
> >
> > 3. MET has a new tool called Grid-Diag that computes the PDF of
one or
> two
> > fields from a given file.  It could be used to do this for each
ensemble
> > member and/or ensemble mean fields if desired.  The CDF could then
be
> > derived from the PDF plotted using your own script if you'd like.
We do
> > not have plotting support available for the output of the Grid-
Diag tool
> > yet.
> >
> > Hopefully this addresses your questions.  Please let us know if it
> doesn't.
> > Cheers, Tara
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT <
> > met_help at ucar.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Tue Jul 07 14:33:01 2020: Request 95843 was acted upon.
> > > Transaction: Ticket created by binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> > >        Queue: met_help
> > >      Subject: CSI and CDF plot
> > >        Owner: Nobody
> > >   Requestors: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> > >       Status: new
> > >  Ticket <URL:
https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843
> >
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using
> MET/METViewer
> > > to for model verification  :
> > >
> > > 1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained from
> > > MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY: ie.
both
> > model
> > > and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those grids
that
> have
> > > either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?
> > >
> > > 2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI
plot?
> > > 3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?
> > >
> > > Thank you very much.
> > > Binyu
> > >
> > >
> >
> > --
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > Tara Jensen
> > Project Manager II
> > NCAR RAL and DTC
> > PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
> > +1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu
> >
> >
>
>

--
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tara Jensen
Project Manager II
NCAR RAL and DTC
PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
+1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu

------------------------------------------------
Subject: CSI and CDF plot
From: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
Time: Wed Jul 08 12:36:15 2020

Thank you, Tara. You can close the ticket now.

Binyu

On Wed, Jul 8, 2020 at 1:39 PM Tara Jensen via RT <met_help at ucar.edu>
wrote:

> Binyu,
>
> You are correct that MET would only retain the 900 points for the
> computation of statistics.
>
> Default config files are included in the MET release in the
> $MET_BASE/share/met/data/config directory.
> You can also view them in our GitHub repository at:
> https://github.com/NCAR/MET/tree/master_v9.0/met/data/config.
> <https://github.com/NCAR/MET/tree/master_v9.0/met/data/config>
> A description of config options can be found in Chapter 3 of the MET
User's
> Guide.
>
> Let me know if you have any further questions regarding these
issues.  If
> not, I'll close this ticket.
> Cheers, Tara
>
> On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 8:21 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT <
> met_help at ucar.edu>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > <URL: https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843 >
> >
> >  Helo Tara,
> >
> > Thank you for the quick response.
> >
> > Sorry I didn't explain clearly in my first question. Here is an
example
> for
> > volcano ash over some area:
> > Eg: there are 1000 grids that have valid value in the observed
file, 950
> > grids that have valid value in the model. There were only 900
grids that
> > were captured both by model and obs. Which means there were 100
grids
> > detected by obs. ONLY and 50 grids detected by model ONLY.  In my
> > understanding, currently MET ONLY includes the paired 900 grids
for
> > calculation like HIST, Rely, and ROC, it just ignores the 150
grids which
> > are either captched by obs. or by model only, am I correct?
> >
> > For CSI and Grid-Diag, is there a sample of configure file for
that?
> >
> > Thank you.
> > Binyu
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 5:56 PM Tara Jensen via RT
<met_help at ucar.edu>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > Binyu,
> > >
> > > Here are some answers to your questions:
> > >
> > > 1.  Reli (Reliability), ROC, and Hist diagrams have to be based
on
> paired
> > > data.  Reliability and ROC are event based scores that require
an
> > > observation or analysis value to define whether the event
occurred or
> > not.
> > > By definition, Rank and PIT Histograms are a measure of where
the
> > > observation lies within the ranked set of values from the
ensemble
> > > members.
> > >
> > > I don't think I understand what you mean by  "how about those
grids
> that
> > > have either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?".  MET
does
> not
> > > expect the forecast and obs to be in the same file.  It actually
> expects
> > > two files to be passed in and it does the heavy lifting of
pairing up
> the
> > > data for the statistics computation.
> > >
> > > 2. MET can compute categorical statistics, such as CSI, for each
> ensemble
> > > member and the ensemble mean field by passing the members and/or
mean
> > field
> > > into MET individually.  Time series, box plots, and bar plots of
CSI
> can
> > > then be plotted using METviewer.
> > >
> > > 3. MET has a new tool called Grid-Diag that computes the PDF of
one or
> > two
> > > fields from a given file.  It could be used to do this for each
> ensemble
> > > member and/or ensemble mean fields if desired.  The CDF could
then be
> > > derived from the PDF plotted using your own script if you'd
like.  We
> do
> > > not have plotting support available for the output of the Grid-
Diag
> tool
> > > yet.
> > >
> > > Hopefully this addresses your questions.  Please let us know if
it
> > doesn't.
> > > Cheers, Tara
> > >
> > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2020 at 2:33 PM binyu.wang at noaa.gov via RT <
> > > met_help at ucar.edu>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > Tue Jul 07 14:33:01 2020: Request 95843 was acted upon.
> > > > Transaction: Ticket created by binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> > > >        Queue: met_help
> > > >      Subject: CSI and CDF plot
> > > >        Owner: Nobody
> > > >   Requestors: binyu.wang at noaa.gov
> > > >       Status: new
> > > >  Ticket <URL:
> https://rt.rap.ucar.edu/rt/Ticket/Display.html?id=95843
> > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Hello,
> > > >
> > > > This is Binyu from NOAA/EMC. I have 3 questions about using
> > MET/METViewer
> > > > to for model verification  :
> > > >
> > > > 1. Currently all  the stats/plots (rely/ROC/Hist) obtained
from
> > > > MET/METviewer are calculated based on the paired data ONLY:
ie. both
> > > model
> > > > and obs. have valid data in the grid. But how about those
grids that
> > have
> > > > either ONLY forecast (no obs) or obs. (no forecast)?
> > > >
> > > > 2. For ensemble forecast, can we use MET/METViewer to make CSI
plot?
> > > > 3. Same as above, can we  use MET/METViewer to make CDF plot?
> > > >
> > > > Thank you very much.
> > > > Binyu
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> > > --
> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > Tara Jensen
> > > Project Manager II
> > > NCAR RAL and DTC
> > > PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
> > > +1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> --
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> Tara Jensen
> Project Manager II
> NCAR RAL and DTC
> PO Box 3000, Boulder, Colorado 80307 USA
> +1 303-497-8479          jensen at ucar.edu
>
>

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