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20001003: GARP question

>From: Richard Scott <address@hidden>
>Organization: UCAR/Unidata
>Keywords: 200010031742.e93Hgfb24381

>       I am a graduate student at Texas A&M University doing my research 
>on a heavy precipitation event from Oct.17-20, 1998 in South Central 
>Texas.  We obtained the set of satellite, radar, surface, and upper-level 
>data from COMET several months ago and have been using GARP to view the 
>dataset.
>
>       My question is how do we get our MM5 model runs of the event into 
>GARP?  I have no experience whatsoever with the process and would like to 
>know if there is anyone who can walk me through the procedure or send me 
>detailed instructions on how to do this.
>
>
>Thank you for any help you can provide,
>
>Rick Scott
>Texas A&M University
>

Rick,

If you have gridded data sets, you can place them in the data directory that
the other case study grids are in (typically the $HDS directory),
then edit the $GARPHOME/config/Garp_defaults file and define a
modelkey and modellabel that uniquely defines the data file names. Forinstance,
if your data is 1998101212_mm5.gem, then a modelkey of mm5 would be useful
to find the files of that type in the data directory.

Lastly, the $GARPHOME/fdf/scalar and vector direcories provide
directories of grid function macros accoring to the modelkey name.
If you have specific functions you want to use, then you
would create an mm5 directory for the scalar and vector functions.
Otherwise, if a directory is not found which matches the modelkey
(as defined in the Garp_defaults file, then the "default" directory
name will be used for the grid function macros that appear in the
model popup.

Steve Chiswell