templates and fixed forecast times for different runs

[Austin Conaty]

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|Bill,
I almost understand what you're trying
to do.  Just a few more questions and
then hopefully I'll get the full picture.

In your original message, you indicate that you have a bunch of
files

pgbf06.%y4%m2%d2%h2 (for six-hour forecasts)
pgbf12.%y4%m2%d2%h2 (for 12-hour forecasts)
pgbf18.%y4%m2%d2%h2 (for 18-hour forecasts)
all the way up to
pgfb180.%y4%m2%d2%h2S

So it seems to me you must have a separate .ctl and .idx file
for each case (06 up to 180).  It seems also you would need to
run gribmap on each case and create a uniquely named .idx file
for each case.

Do you have separate .ctl files AND separate .idx files
for each case?  Have you run gribmap for each case?

Have you tried changing the %h2 to %f2 in the template string?




Bill Bua wrote:
> Hey Austin --
>
> (long time no see!)
>
> Anyway, I want to be able to examine the forecast error at a fixed forecast
> time from different runs, and look at that error in a time series based on
> the forecast INITIAL time, rather than the forecast VALID time), compared to
> the analysis for the GFS (I'll use f00 for the forecast times).  The first
> forecast was from 00z24Jan2008, the last will be the latest forecast (hence
> the large number of times in tdef, and the 6 hour time interval representing
> the time interval between forecast initial times).
>
> Wouldn't I want ONE .ctl and .idx file with the template set up to look at
> the initial time for each forecast run?  I figured this would allow me to
> look at all the variables at a particular lead time (f06, f12, f18, f24, f30
> and so on) sequentially by forecast run times, so that I could get my time
> series of forecasts to compare to the verification (and then get my RMS
> error time series).
>
> Does that help explain what I'm attempting to do?
>
> Thanks for helping me clarify ...
>
> Bill
>
>