End of Practical Session 5
Congratulations! You have completed Session 5!
If you have extra time, you may want to try these additional METplus exercises.
${METPLUS_BUILD_BASE}/parm/use_cases/met_tool_wrapper/MTD/MTD.conf \
$METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR/user_config/mtd.skip.conf
${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/user_config/mtd.skip.conf \
${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/tutorial.conf \
config.OUTPUT_BASE=${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/output/exercises/mtd_skip
Did you see the WARNING message?
If you look in the data directories for this run, you will see that while the forecast for the 15 hour lead exists, the observation file does not. METplus will only add items to the MTD lists if both corresponding files are available.
ls -1 ${METPLUS_DATA}/met_test/new/ST2*
${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/user_config/mtd.unzip.conf \
${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/tutorial.conf \
config.OUTPUT_BASE=${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}/output/exercises/unzip
Notice that the path of the 3 hour file is under your ${METPLUS_TUTORIAL_DIR}, while the 6 hour file is under ${METPLUS_DATA}. If you look in the data directories for this run, you will see that the 3 hour observation file is gzipped in ${METPLUS_DATA}.
METplus can recognize that files with gz, bzip2, or zip extensions are compressed and will do so automatically, placing the uncompressed file in the staging directory so that METplus doesn't modify any data in the input directory. METplus can be configured to scrub the staging directory after the run completes to save space, or leave the files so that they may be used by subsequent METplus runs without having to uncompress again (See SCRUB_STAGING_DIR and STAGING_DIR in the METplus User's Guide).
