User’s Guide
Foreword: A note to METplotpy users
This User’s Guide is provided as an aid to users of the TCDiag-Realtime use cases. TCDiag-Realtime contains elaborated use cases for conducting real-time and retrospective verification workflows in METplus. More details about METplus can be found on the METplus website.
It is important to note here that TCDiag-Realtime is an evolving software package. This documentation describes the 0.1 release dated 2024-03-01. Intermediate releases may include bug fixes.
TCDiag-Realtime TERMS OF USE - IMPORTANT!
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Citations
The citation for this User’s Guide should be:
Vigh, J. L., Musgrave, K., Halley Gotway, J., DeMaria, R., Newman, K., Win-Gildenmeister, M., McCabe, G., Burek, T., Kucera, P., 2024: The TCDiag-Realtime Use Cases, Version 0.1 User’s Guide. Research Applications Laboratory, National Center for Atmospheric Research. Available here.
Acknowledgments
This material is based upon work supported by the NSF National Center for Atmospheric Research, which is a major facility sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation under Cooperative Agreement No. 1852977. Funding was provided by the NOAA/Joint Technology Transfer Initiative (JTTI). We also thank all of the METplus sponsors including: Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) partners (NOAA, NCAR, USAF, and NSF), along with NOAA/Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR), NOAA/National Weather Service, NOAA/Joint Technology Transfer Program (JTTI), NOAA/Subseasonal to Seasonal (S2S) Project, NOAA/Unified Forecast System Research to Operations Project (UFS R2O), Met Office and the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL). Thanks also go to the staff at the DTC for their help, advice, and many types of support.