README FOR THE FILES IN THE MET PRESENTATION FOLDER

John D McMillen 13 Aug 2014

This folder contains data, configuration files, and a presentation that outlines the use of the MET toolkit with an emphasis on the MODE tool.

MET is installed locally: /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/MET/v4.1/bin/

MET is on the web: http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/index.php
http://www.dtcenter.org/met/users/support/online_tutorial/METv4.1/index.php

I recommend running the tutorial on the web, but you can also use the data files included here and the config files to run MET tools and then check your results against the output data files. 

The Presentation:
MET_MODE.pptx

The Data Files:
20101027.ascii -- An ascii file of surface precipitation observations formatted for conversion to the 		       NetCDF format required by MET 
20101027.nc -- The NetCDF formatted file of surface precipitation observations produced from 		    20101027.ascii by the MET tool ASCII2NC
NEXRAD20101027qcd.nc -- The NetCDF formatted radar estimated precipitation data produced by 				   my MATLAB script, 
WRF20101027.nc-- The NetCDF formatted WRF precipitation data produced by my MATLAB script, 

The Configure Files: 
-- These files are used to run the MET tools.  The name of the tool is in the filename.  They can be compared to the tutorial config files in the MET Directory: /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/sys/pkg/MET/v4.1/bin/
GradStatConfig
MODEConfig_thresh1_v2
PointStatConfig

The Output Files:
-- The tool name is included in the output file name.  See the web resources for what each of these files contains.  There is a lot of information in each of these files!

grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_cnt.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_ctc.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_cts.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_nbrcnt.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_nbrctc.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_nbrcts.txt
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_pairs.nc
grid_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V.stat

point_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_cnt.txt
point_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_ctc.txt
point_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V_cts.txt
point_stat_240000L_20050808_000000V.stat

mode_240000L_20050808_000000V_120000A_cts.txt
mode_240000L_20050808_000000V_120000A_obj.nc
mode_240000L_20050808_000000V_120000A_obj.txt
mode_240000L_20050808_000000V_120000A.ps

The Scripts:
met_ascii_format.m -- This script formats text precipitation data into ASCII that can be used by the 		              MET tool ASCII2NC to convert into the correct format for ingestion by other 			   MET tools such as point_stat
WRFNEXRADnetcdf.m -- This script ingests WRF and NEXRAD data; computes radar estimated 			         precipitation from NEXRAD files; subtracts an early WRF_out file from a 			         later one to calculate WRF event total precipitation; regrids the WRF data 			         to the NEXRAD grid; saves NetCDF files formatted for ingestion by MET 			         tools; and plots and saves the result as a gross error check.