MET Online Tutorial for METv8.0 | Point Processing Tool > MADIS2NC

MADIS2NC Functionality

The MADIS2NC tool is used to reformat Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest System (MADIS) point observations into the NetCDF format expected by the Point-Stat tool. More information about MADIS data and formatting is available at NOAA's MADIS page. Since the MADIS2NC tool simply performs a reformatting step, no configuration file is needed.

MADIS2NC Usage

View the usage statement for MADIS2NC by simply typing the following:

madis2nc

At a minimum, the input madis_file and the output out_file, and the type string (-type str) must be passed in on the command line.