Program M3STAT

Usage

    setenv  <infile>     <path name>
    setenv  <reportfile> <path name>
    m3stat [<infile> [<reportfile>]] [<DEFAULT>]
        <and respond to the prompts>
where infile is the logical name of the input file, and reportfile is the logical name of the report file (to which the statistical report is printed). If reportfile is not present, the report will go either to the log file (if it is set) or to the screen. If neither is present, the program will prompt the user for both input file and report file logical names. If DEFAULT is the last command-line argument, then m3stat does the default statistical analysis.

Summary

The m3stat program reports the result of a statistical analysis of variables from a user-specified BOUNDARY , CUSTOM , ID-REFERENCED , GRIDDED , or SPARSE MATRIX Models-3 file. The analysis can be either the default (which reports max and its grid-cell location, min and its location, mean, and standard deviation for each variable for each time step, or a user-customized one which does both statistical analysis and also threshold analysis on selected variables with user-supplied thresholds, and for a user-selected time period. Threshold analysis answers questions like the following example:
For what fraction of the grid does OZONE in this file exceed 0.120?

For each time step for each selected variable, the program reports statistics on that variable to the program log or to an optional user-selected report file.

Before you run the program, you need to assign a logical name to the physical file names of both the input file and the report file (if any), according to Models-3 conventions, using the operation

        "setenv <lname> <pname>"
    
The program will prompt you for the logical name you have chosen for the input file, the logical name for the optional report file (Enter "NONE" for the file name if you want an interactive report or a report to the program log), and then extensively for the options to choose; the prompts will have default responses which can be accepted by hitting <RETURN>. The specification of starting date and time, and duration for the analysis follow Models-3 date and time conventions.

Note that the set of analyses which can be performed by one execution of M3STAT is quite complex, being dependent upon the variables and other structures in the file being analyzed. If you want to run this program in batch mode (i.e., from a script), the recommended way to develop the script is to run the program once interactively while noting the pattern of responses to prompts which generate the particular analysis you want. The pattern of responses then becomes either a command-input file which is redirected into the program's execution by the script, or becomes a "here-document" fed into the execution. The following is an excerpt of a script which does the default analysis on /tmp/myfile.A using the here-document approach:

    ...
    setenv FOO  /tmp/myfile.A
    m3stat  <<  !DONE
    FOO
    Yes, I want the default analysis
                 # use the default run length:  entire duration of the files
!DONE
    ...

Source code for program m3statis available under the GNU GPL License, Version 2, and can be downloaded here from CMAS or here from GitHub.


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