[Met_help] [rt.rap.ucar.edu #100988] History for Some confusion about the file format for input MET

[George McCabe via RT]

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Dear met_help，


My name is Zhibo Gao, a PhD student from Beijing Normal University and also a MET user. I am very glad to write to you. First of all, thank you for developing such a great tool！ When I use this tool, I encounter some confusion, I would appreciate if you could help me.


I currently get a forecasted two-dimensional precipitation field named rain_forecast ([lat | 87] x [time | 123]), correspondingly, I have an observed precipitation variable named rain_obs ([lat | 87] x [time | 123]), both of these variables come from the nc file generated by myself, which may not meet the file standard of MET. I want to know if there is an easy way to make MET evalutate these two variables ( For example, using spatial verification methods)


By the way, if these two variables are rain_forecast ([lat | 87] x [lon| 123]) and rain_obs ([lat | 87] x [lon | 123]), is there a simple way to make MET evalutate these two variables ( For example, also using spatial verification methods).


Thank you for your help. 
Kind regards,Zhibo Gao







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Subject: Some confusion about the file format for input MET
From: George McCabe
Time: Wed Aug 18 08:57:31 2021

This question was reposted to GitHub Discussions here:
https://github.com/dtcenter/METplus/discussions/1088

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