The Model Evaluation Tools (MET) development team at the DTC is pleased to announce the release of a multi-component verification capability called METplus. It includes METplus version 2.1, MET version 8.1 and METviewer version 2.10. METplus contains a suite of Python wrappers and ancillary scripts to enhance the user's ability to quickly set-up and run MET. METviewer is a database and display system for aggregating and plotting MET output. In the future, a user will be able to check everything out through the METplus GitHub repository. Until then, the components will need to be downloaded separately.
METPLUS 2.1 MAY BE OBTAINED ON GITHUB.
- Major Enhancements: Renaming of many config variables so they are more clear, enhanced error checking of config options, improved logging, automatic setting of default values in the final conf file, and the ability to define run times relative to current clock time ("now").
- Current supported use cases and examples: Cyclone Plotter, Ensembles, Feature Relative, Grid-to-Grid, Grid-to-Obs, HMT Testbed, HWT Testbed, MODE, QPF, Track_and_Intensity, and Plotting
MET 8.1 IS AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD FROM THE MET USERS WEB PAGE AND AS A DOCKER CONTAINER VIA DOCKERHUB.
- Major Enhancements: Fortify compliance, percentile thresholds, land/sea mask and topography in Point-Stat, the derive option in PCP-Combine, and Gaussian interpolation
- Full details can be found in the release notes.
- For MET 8.1, please refer to the MET 8.0 Online Tutorial for help getting started.
METVIEWER 2.10 MAY BE OBTAINED ON GITHUB AND IS AVAILABLE AS A DOCKER CONTAINER VIA GITHUB.
- Major Enhancements: Support for MET 8.1 output
- Current Plot Templates: Time Series, Box Plot, Bar Plot, Receiver Operator Curve (ROC), Reliability Diagram, Binned Ensemble Spread-Skill, Performance Diagram, Taylor Diagram, Histogram, Economic Cost-Loss Value, 2D Contour Plots of statistics, and Scorecard.
- Full details can be found in the release notes.
SUPPORT FOR US-BASED HPCS
Over the next week, METplus 2.1 and MET 8.1 will be installed on several US-based high performance computing platforms (e.g. Cheyenne, Jet, Theia and WCOSS) to make it more accessible to both the research and operations community. Please see the list of existing builds. METviewer is intended to be installed on your local server.
