Series-Analysis Tool: General
Series-Analysis Functionality
The Series-Analysis Tool accumulates statistics separately for each horizontal grid location over a series. Usually, the series is defined as a time series, however any type of series is possible, including a series of vertical levels. This differs from the Grid-Stat tool in that Grid-Stat computes statistics aggregated over a spatial masking region at a single point in time. The Series-Analysis Tool computes statistics for each individual grid point and can be used to quantify how the model performance varies over the domain.
Series-Analysis Usage
View the usage statement for Series-Analysis by simply typing the following:
| Usage: series_analysis | ||
| -fcst file_1 ... file_n | Gridded forecast files or ASCII file containing a list of file names. | |
| -obs file_1 ... file_n | Gridded observation files or ASCII file containing a list of file names. | |
| [-both file_1 ... file_n] | Sets the -fcst and -obs options to the same list of files (e.g. the NetCDF matched pairs files from Grid-Stat). |
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| [-paired] | Indicates that the -fcst and -obs file lists are already matched up (i.e. the n-th forecast file matches the n-th observation file). |
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| -out file | NetCDF output file name for the computed statistics. | |
| -config file | SeriesAnalysisConfig file containing the desired configuration settings. | |
| [-log file] | Outputs log messages to the specified file | |
| [-v level] | Level of logging (optional). | |
| [-compress level] | NetCDF compression level (optional). |
At a minimum, the -fcst, -obs (or -both), -out, and -config settings must be passed in on the command line. All forecast and observation fields must be interpolated to a common grid prior to running Series-Analysis.
