################################# # AMET Version 1.1 - Change Log # ################################# #################################### # Main Enhancements / New Features # #################################### *** Updated R batch call in csh files. The new call prints all output to a log-file $AMET_LOG. This call also suppresses the echoing of the R script itself through use of the --slave option. Also logs output from R script in the log-file $AMET_LOG. *** MCIP Surface files can now be used as Met input AMET can now use METCRO2D and GRIDCRO2D files from MCIP to match with surface observations. Example model data is provided to work with scripts_db/mcipExample. *** MADIS ACARS Aircraft data for profile analysis The profiler matching script can now make use of ACARS-Profile data from MADIS for comparisons with MM5 and WRF output. *** Cleaner more commented analysis input files All processing was moved to the R scripts to make input files cleaner and easier to follow. Additionally the comments were updated helping to explain the purpose of each variable. ############# # Bug Fixes # ############# Several bugs were posted on bugz.unc.edu and fixed others were found through the upgrade process. ****** MATCHING BUGS ********* *** Mixing ratio bug A bug was found in the met processing where the MADIS variable Q is actually absolute humidity and not mixing ratio. This version has been updated to make use of mixing ratio data (WVMR) from MADIS. NOTE: Old database tables need to have the new column added with the command: "alter table my_table_surface ad column WVMR_ob FLOAT(10,6)" *** Precipitation bugs Changes were made to how precipitation is handled in the matching phase. ****** Analysis Bugs ********** The tag-line "An AMET Product" was removed from AQ plots. bug #2598 was fixed in AQ_Scatterplot_MtoM ****** Configuration Bugs *********** amet-config.R was changed to fix bug 2570. This addressed the issue of R libraries being in non-standard locations. The configuration file was also cleaned up removing unused variables. All R Scripts were modified so that libraries were loaded after input files were sourced. This was necessary to allow the configuration file to update the library list as shown in bug 2570. Additionally a check was made on loading the libraries so a fatal error is thrown when a library is not loaded. ########################### # Additional Enhancements # ########################### ********* Analysis scripts ************ All analysis scripts have had their output folder locations modified to include the name of the script being run. This allows the user to know which data and plots came from each of the run scripts. Updated all csh scripts to make parent directories of the output directory. Error handling in csh scripts was improved and added to all analysis scripts. Now if the R script crashes, the csh script alerts the user that an error occurred and points them to the log-file. If the script runs successfully the location of the plots is given. In addition the R scripts were updated to make use of the stop() command when errors are found, which allows for the csh script error handling. AQ Stacked barplot was updated to use either median or mean as averaging method. Previous version always used median. Bldoverlay_exe was moved from configuration file to R script, and hard coded to use $AMET_BASE/bin/bldoverlay. bldoverlay was also added to binlinker script. All comments in the combine SpecDef files were updated to match the contents of the file. A new input file Network.input was added to aqExample, this allows all network settings to be handled in one file, rather than needing to update each input file when changes are made to the networks. ***** Bin directory changes ******* The Subs scripts were updated to remove dependence on SUBS command from Pave instead the standard Unix utility sed is used. MADIS static folder is now linked to $AMET_BASE/bin allowing a default location of this folder to be set in all run scripts. ****** Matching Enhancements ****** Met scripts have been updated to make use of MADIS data stored in gzip format. This has been shown to greatly reduce the size of storage needed for the MADIS data. AMET will now unzip the files it needs and then rezip them if requested. A new database script $AMET_BASE/scripts_db/wrfExample/metFTP.csh has been included. This will allow the user to download MADIS data for any time period, without needing the model data. All Met model types now include a check of land surface characteristics in an effort to ensure common land use between station and model. plot_prof script has been changed greatly adding hourly profile plots, and an option to output a spatial plot which places the site IDs of station locations at their location in the model domain.