Build process

• Add sample Makefile for building MET with Intel compilers.
• Add support for compiling on Debian-Lenny release.

Library code

• Several bug fixes.
• Restructure and rename output ASCII file format from VSDB to STAT and add output columns to store data in a more straight-forward way.
• Enable more sophisticated masking for the Point-Stat, Grid-Stat, and MODE tools by reading the output of the Gen-Poly-Mask tool or any other gridded data field and, optionally, thresholding that field to define a masking region.

ASCII2NC Tool

• Fix bug so that observations values from the same observing location are assigned the same header id.

PB2NC Tool

• Remove requirement that PrepBufr files be Fortran-blocked prior to running through PB2NC. The blocking is now done internally as specified in the ARCH_FLAGS in the top-level MET Makefile. The "-DBLOCK4" flag indicates that 4-byte blocking should be performed instead of the default 8-byte blocking. This is compiler-dependent. The sample Makefiles contain a best guess for each compiler, but if you experience runtime errors from the PB2NC tool try adding or removing the "-DBLOCK4" flag, recompiling, and rerunning.
• Running the PB2NC tool, which links to the BUFRLIB library, on 64-bit machines continues to be problematic. Users may continue to build MET and the libraries on which it depends as 32-bit on 64-bit machines. MET users will be notified when the BUFRLIB 64-bit issues are resolved.

Gen-Poly-Mask Tool

• New for this release.

PCP-Combine Tool

Add the "-ptv" command line argument to specify which GRIB parameter table version number should be used.

Grid-Stat Tool

• Modify how the user specifies the forecast and observation fields to be selected, thresholded, and compared. The user can now select them independently and compare two different fields.
• Add the option of specifying a level for a GRIB record as 'L', meaning any generic level type, as opposed to specifying a pressure level or vertical level.
• Add 3 output line types related to neighborhood verification: Neighborhood Contingency Table Counts (NBRCTC)
  Neighborhood Contingency Table Statistics (NBRCTS)
  Neighborhood Continuous Statistics (NBRCNT)
• Add support for verifying probabilistic forecasts and add new output line types to store the output. Probablistic data may have a range of values of [0, 1] or [0, 100]. However, probablistic data with a range of [0, 100] will first be rescaled to [0, 1] before verifying it.
• Add configurable wind speed threshold parameters to specify which (U, V) points should be included in the VL1L2 partial sums.
• Change the "ncep_defaults" configurable parameter to "grib_ptv" to specify which GRIB parameter table version number should be used.
• Add an "output_prefix" configurable parameter to include a user-specified string in the output file names.

Point-Stat Tool

• Same as Grid-Stat, see above.

Wavelet-Stat Tool

• New for this release.

Stat-Analysis Tool

• Rename the VSDB-Analysis tool to the STAT-Analysis tool and modify it to read the STAT output lines from the other MET tools.
• Simplify names for jobs.
• Add support for converting VL1L2 STAT lines into information about wind direction errors.
• Add support for reading and aggregating the ISC STAT line from the Wavelet-Stat tool.
• Add support for reading and aggregating the new probability STAT line types (PCT, PSTD, PJC, and PRC) from the Grid-Stat and Point-Stat tools.

MODE Tool

• Change the "ncep_defaults" configurable parameter to "grib_ptv" to specify which GRIB parameter table version number should be used.
• Add an "output_prefix" configurable parameter to include a user-specified string in the output file names.
• Modify the output PostScript file to include new summary measures on the first page and add a page listing out the pairwise attributes of the matched cluster (formerly called "composite") objects.
• Add a column to the MODE output files for the VERSION number of MODE that generated the file.
• Add a column to the MODE output files for the AREA_THRESH value.

MODE-Analysis Tool

• Modify to read the latest MODE output columns.