TC-Pairs Tool: General
TC-Pairs Functionality
The TC-Pairs tool provides position and intensity information for tropical cyclone forecasts in Automated Tropical Cyclone Forecast System (ATCF) format. Much like the Point-Stat tool, TC-Pairs produces matched pairs of forecast model output and an observation dataset. In the case of TC-Pairs, both the model output and observational dataset (or reference forecast) must be in ATCF format. TC-Pairs produces matched pairs for position errors, as well as wind, sea level pressure, and distance to land values for each input dataset.
TC-Pairs Usage
View the usage statement for TC-Pairs by simply typing the following:
| Usage: tc_pairs | ||
| -adeck source | Input ATCF format track files | |
| -edeck source | Input ATCF format ensemble probability files | |
| -bdeck source | Input ATCF format observation (or reference forecast) file path/name | |
| -config file | Configuration file | |
| [-out_base] | path of output file base | |
| [-log_file] | name of log associated with tc_pairs output | |
| [-v level] | Level of logging (optional) |
At a minimum, the input ATCF format -adeck (or -edeck) source, the input ATCF format -bdeck source, and the configuration -config file must be passed in on the command line.
The -adeck, -edeck, and -edeck options can be set to either a specific file name or a top-level directory which will be searched for files ending in ".dat".
