Software with a View of Weather Observation Statistics by Kevin M. Wilson Mesoscale & Microscale Meteorology Division NCAR
TOTAL = 12565, MISS. = , SYNOP = 428, METAR = 127, SHIP = 32, BUOY = 164, BOGUS = 0, TEMP = 26, AMDAR = 696, AIREP = 75, PILOT = 23, SATEM = 0, SATOB = 10931, GPSPW = 0, GPSZD = 0, GPSRF = 63, GPSEP = 0, SSMT1 = 0, SSMT2 = 0, TOVS = 0, QSCAT = 0, PROFL = 0, AIRSR = 0, OTHER = 0, Filtered_obs combines only 20 categories those are Amdar+Airep=Airep, GoAMV & PeAMV = Satob’s (Geostationary obs), & PROFL is also missing.
SRFC = SLP, PW (DATA,QC,ERROR). EACH = PRES, SPEED, DIR, HEIGHT, TEMP, DEW PT, HUMID (DATA,QC,ERROR)*LEVELS. INFO_FMT = (A12,1X,A19,1X,A40,1X,I6,3(F12.3,11X),6X,A5) SRFC_FMT = (F12.3,I4,F7.2,F12.3,I4,F7.3) EACH_FMT = (3(F12.3,I4,F7.2),11X,3(F12.3,I4,F7.2),11X,3(F12.3,I4,F7.2))) # # FM-12 SYNOP _00:00:00 MOSSEL BAY (CAPE ST. BLAIZE) / SOUTH AFR
Statistical report on observations used by WRF for a given period. Date of Report: , covering one forecast. ======================================================= Number of obs available for the forecast = 7811 Number of obs used in the forecast = 7396 Number of obs rejected in the forecast = 415 Percentage of obs used in the forecast = 94 Incoming SYNOPs: 422 SYNOPs rejected : 179 ( 42.4%) SYNOPs used in this analysis: 243 ( 57.6%) Incoming BUOYs: 133 BUOYs rejected: 133 (100.0%) BUOYs used in this analysis: 0 ( 0.0%) This format is used for <>_Period_Stats_rpt.txt & the <>_Stats_obs.txt files.
Statistical report on observations used by WRF in AMPS for a 19 day period. This report covers forecasts (00 UTC, 12 UTC) for the following days
Total SYNOPs available for these forecasts: SYNOPs used in these forecasts: (55.4%) SYNOPs rejected in these forecasts : 8928 (44.6%) Total METARs available for these forecasts : 4632 METARs used in these forecasts : 2402 (51.9%) METARs rejected in these forecasts : 2230 (48.1%) Total SHIPs available for these forecasts : 795 SHIPs used in these forecasts : 597 (75.1%) SHIPs rejected in these forecasts : 198 (24.9%) Total BUOYs available for these forecasts : 4874 BUOYs used in these forecasts : 0 (100.0%) BUOYs rejected in these forecasts : 4874 (100.0%)
CASEY station report for the following dates ======================================================== Number of CASEY obs available for the forecast period = 8 Number of CASEY obs used in the forecast period = 2 Number of CASEY obs rejected in the forecast period = 6 Percentage of CASEY obs used in the forecast period = 25.0 The percentage of rejected obs in the forecast period = 75.0 Total SYNOPs available for the forecast period : 6 SYNOPs used in the forecast period : 0 ( 0.0%) SYNOPs rejected in the forecast period : 6 (100.0%) Total TEMPs available for the forecast period : 2 TEMPs used in the forecast period : 2 (100.0%) TEMPs rejected in the forecast period : 0 ( 0.0%)