Library code

• Modified the configuration file parser code. The formats of all of the configuration files in MET have changed since the Beta release. The version of the configuration files in the data/config or scripts/config directories must be used with METv1.0.

PB2NC Tool

• Support message type strings "ANYAIR", "ANYSFC", and "ONLYSF". See the default configuration file for details.
• Change "multiple_quality_marks_flag" to "event_stack_flag" in the configuration file. See section 3.5.2 for more information.
• Retrieve the data level category value from the bottom of the event stack which is the only place it is defined.
• Derive additional observation variables, such as dewpoint temperature, wind speed, relative humidity, mixing ratio, and pressure-reduced to mean sea level.
• Correct units for specific humidity.

PCP-Combine Tool

Change the format of the input date/time.

Point-Stat Tool

• Support message type strings "ANYAIR", "ANYSFC", and "ONLYSF". See the default configuration file for details.
• Add "mask_stations" to the configuration file to perform verification at individual stations.
• Derive wind speed in the forecast field from the U and V components of wind.
• Compute additional continuous statistics, such as Spearman rank correlation coefficient, Kendall's Tau statistic.
• Add the least-squares interpolation method.
• Add confidence intervals for several categorical statistics.
• Climatology files now correctly being accepted.
• Fix a problem with rotating winds from grid-relative coordinates to earth-relative coordinates.
• Make changes to the output file format (refer to Chapter 4 of the MET User's Guide).
• Make changes to the output file names (by valid time, not init time).

Grid-Stat Tool

• Enhance the NetCDF output file. In addition to the forecast-observation difference, the raw forecast and observation fields are included.
• Add "interp_method" and "interp_width" to the configuration file to optionally smooth the forecast field prior to performing verification.
• Compute additional continuous statistics, such as Spearman rank correlation coefficient, Kendall's Tau statistic.
• Add confidence intervals for several categorical statistics.
• Fix a problem with rotating winds from grid-relative coordinates to earth-relative coordinates.
• Make changes to output file format (refer to Chapter 5 of the MET User's Guide).
• Make changes to the output file names (by valid time, not init time).

MODE Tool

• Change "vx_grib_code" to "fcst_grib_code" and "obs_grib_code" in the configuration file to derive and compare objects from different raw fields.
• Change "raw_color_table" to "fcst_raw_color_table" and "obs_raw_color_table" in the configuration file to plot the raw fields using different colortables.
• Add "fcst/obs_raw_plot_min" and "fcst/obs_raw_plot_max" to the configuration file to rescale the raw colortables using the range specified.
• Add "plot_valid_flag" to the configuration file to plot only the region of the input fields containing valid data.
• Add "plot_gcarc_flag" to the configuration file to enable polyline to be plotted using great circle arcs or straight line segments in the grid.
• Make changes to the output file format and column names (refer to Chapter 6 of the MET User's Guide).
• Make changes to the output file names (by valid time, not init time).

VSDB-Analysis Tool

• Add new tool for aggregating and analyzing the VSDB output of the Point-Stat and Grid-Stat tools.

MODE-Analysis Tool

• Add new tool for aggregating and analyzing the ASCII object statistics output of the MODE tool.