Grid-Stat Tool: Run

Next, run Grid-Stat on the command line using the following command:

bin/grid_stat \
tutorial/out/pcp_combine/sample_fcst_12L_2005080712V_12A.nc \
tutorial/out/pcp_combine/sample_obs_12L_2005080712V_12A.nc \
tutorial/config/GridStatConfig_tutorial \
-outdir tutorial/out/grid_stat \
-v 2

Grid-Stat is now performing the verification tasks we requested in the configuration file. It should take a minute or two to run. To greatly increase the runtime performance of Grid-Stat, you could turn off the computation of bootstrap confidence intervals by setting the n_boot_rep variable in the configuration file to zero. However, we recommend computing bootstrap confidence intervals unless runtime performance is an issue.

In this example, Grid-Stat performs 14 verification tasks. The 14 tasks are a result of: (1 field (APCP at 12-hours) * 2 masking regions) + (1 field * 2 neighborhood sizes * 3 raw thresholds * 2 masking regions)