User’s Guide
Foreword: A note to MET users
This User’s guide is provided as an aid to users of the Model Evaluation Tools (MET). MET is a set of verification tools developed by the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) for use by the numerical weather prediction community to help them assess and evaluate the performance of numerical weather predictions. It is also the core component of the unified METplus verification framework. More details about METplus can be found on the METplus website.
It is important to note here that MET is an evolving software package. This documentation describes the 11.1.1 release dated 2024-06-25. Previous releases of MET have occurred each year since 2008. Intermediate releases may include bug fixes. MET is also able to accept new modules contributed by the community. If you have code you would like to contribute, we will gladly consider your contribution. Please create a post in the METplus GitHub Discussions Forum. We will then determine the maturity of the new verification method and coordinate the inclusion of the new module in a future version.
Model Evaluation Tools (MET) TERMS OF USE - IMPORTANT!
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Citations
The citation for this User’s Guide should be:
Jensen, T., J. Prestopnik, H. Soh, L. Goodrich, B. Brown, R. Bullock, J. Halley Gotway, K. Newman, J. Opatz, 2024: The MET Version 11.1.1 User’s Guide. Developmental Testbed Center. Available at: https://github.com/dtcenter/MET/releases
Acknowledgments
We thank the National Science Foundation (NSF) along with three organizations within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): 1) Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR); 2) Next Generation Global Prediction System project (NGGPS); and 3) United State Weather Research Program (USWRP), the United States Air Force (USAF), and the United States Department of Energy (DOE) for their support of this work. Funding for the development of MET-TC is from the NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP) through the Developmental Testbed Center (DTC). Funding for the expansion of capability to address many methods pertinent to global and climate simulations was provided by NOAA’s Next Generation Global Prediction System (NGGPS) and NSF Earth System Model 2 (EaSM2) projects. We would like to thank James Franklin at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) for his insight into the original development of the existing NHC verification software. Thanks also go to the staff at the Developmental Testbed Center for their help, advice, and many types of support. We released METv1.0 in January 2008 and would not have made a decade of cutting-edge verification support without those who participated in the original MET planning workshops and the now dis-banded verification advisory group (Mike Baldwin, Matthew Sittel, Elizabeth Ebert, Geoff DiMego, Chris Davis, and Jason Knievel).
The National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) is sponsored by NSF. The DTC is sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the United States Air Force, and the National Science Foundation (NSF). NCAR is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF).
- 1. Overview of MET
- 2. MET Release Information
- 3. Software Installation/Getting Started
- 4. MET Data I/O
- 5. Configuration File Overview
- 6. Tropical Cyclone Configuration Options
- 7. Re-Formatting of Point Observations
- 8. Re-Formatting of Gridded Fields
- 9. Gen-Ens-Prod Tool
- 10. Regional Verification using Spatial Masking
- 11. Point-Stat Tool
- 12. Grid-Stat Tool
- 13. Ensemble-Stat Tool
- 14. Wavelet-Stat Tool
- 15. GSI Tools
- 16. Stat-Analysis Tool
- 17. Series-Analysis Tool
- 18. Grid-Diag Tool
- 19. MODE Tool
- 20. MODE-Analysis Tool
- 21. MODE Time Domain Tool
- 22. MET-TC Overview
- 23. TC-DLand Tool
- 24. TC-Pairs Tool
- 25. TC-Diag Tool
- 26. TC-Stat Tool
- 27. TC-Gen Tool
- 28. TC-RMW Tool
- 29. RMW-Analysis Tool
- 30. Plotting and Graphics Support
- 31. References
- 32. Appendix A FAQs & How do I … ?
- 33. Appendix B Map Projections, Grids, and Polylines
- 34. Appendix C Verification Measures
- 35. Appendix D Confidence Intervals
- 36. Appendix E WWMCA Tools
- 37. Appendix F Python Embedding
- 38. Appendix G Vectors and Vector Statistics