METplus Motivation

We have now successfully run the PCP-Combine and Grid-Stat tools to verify 12-hourly accumulated preciptation for a single output time. We did the following steps:

• Identified our forecast and observation datasets.
• Constructed PCP-Combine commands to put them into a common accumulation interval.
• Configured and ran Grid-Stat to compute our desired verification statistics.

Now that we've defined the logic for a single run, the next step would be writing a script to automate these steps for many model initializations and forecast lead times. Rather than every MET user rewriting the same type of scripts, use METplus to automate these steps in a use case!