Used to compute means of forecast-minus-analysis, rms of forecast-minus-analysis and the standard deviation of the forecast for a particular date and time range from specified analysis and forecast files.
The output consists of three postcript files:
Note - on 09.02.2010 I changed the description of the output, but not the calculation.
Calculations are currently performed at a single time per cycle and any averages or summations use all 24 members of the model run.
The IDL source code can be found at
The code uses library routines written by Andy Heaps (NCAS, University of
Reading)
and these are accesssed by adding these two lines into your
export IDL_PATH=+/usr/local/itt . /data/nwp1/frbr/TIDLWorkspace/andy_lib/guide4.sh
The user must supply information as follows:
The dates and times specified above apply for the first cycle. For subsequent cycles the times and dates are incremented forward by one hour.
111 ; start cycle 130 ; end cycle 2007 ; 4 digit start year 07 ; 2 digit start month 26 ; 2 digit start day 1130 ; 4 digit start time 03236 ; 5 digit field code /home/mm0200/apis/data/ETKF/20070726/plots/ ; forecast file directory _qwq ; XXX - forecast filename FFFFFXXXcccZZZmmYYY .oper : ZZZ - FFFFF is the field code number, ccc is the .pp_001.nc ; YYY - cycle no., mm is the member number (00 to 23) /home/mm0200/apis/data/ETKF/20070726/plots/ ; analysis file directory _qwq ; AAA - analysis filename FFFFFAAAcccBBB .oper00.pp_001.nc ; BBB - ccc is the cycle number
where the records should been changed to reflect the input data and output requirements of the user. The text to the right of the ';' symbols can be kept as a reminder of the meaning of the data records.
The idl code can now been run in a batch job or, if run interactively, will loop through the specified cycles.
The figures shows 1.5m temperature model results valid for a 1.5h forecast from 1000Z on 26 July 2007.
Note - 09.02.2010: RMS in the titles now reads 'MAE'. Also, the time-mean in the figures refers to the average over one cycle only!
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