05 April, 2019

Login

    # login to your account
    ssh -X fegast2@lce.dwd.de
    
    # load software modules
    module purge
    module load unsupported
    module load pbs
    module load git
    module load oracle 
    module load intel 
    module load netcdf/4.3.2
    module load R/3.5.1

Get verification scripts

cd
git clone https://github.com/rfxf/FFV.git
You should find a folder FFV in your HOME.
All necessary verification R scripts are inside.
In some of them hard coded paths to external files need to be changed.
cd ~/FFV
for f in `/bin/ls *.R`; do 
    sed -i 's,/e/uhome/ffundel/globals/,/e/uhome/username/FFV/,g' $f
done

Feedback Files for the Exercises

The exercises use COSMO-D2 routine feedback files.
mkdir -p ~/FFV/data/cosmo
mkdir -p ~/FFV/data/cosmop1
cd ~/FFV/data/cosmo
ln -s /lustre2/uwork/ffundel/DATA/FDBK/cosmo/*ver[ST]*2019030* ./
cd ~/FFV/data/cosmop1
ln -s /lustre2/uwork/ffundel/DATA/FDBK/cosmop1/*ver[ST]*2019030* ./
You should now find links to feedback files for some days in each cosmo folder.
Own files are welcome!

Exercise 1

Run a deterministic SYNOP and TEMP verification (interactively).
Use the namelist examples from the documentation.
Note: To find the results in the visualization app use the namelist keys
shinyServer     'oflxs464'
shinyAppPath    '/uwork1/username/shiny'
Create the working directory (outdir) in beforehand.
You can use the text editor 'gedit'.
If successful, the final scores can be inspected with visualization apps on http://oflxs464.dwd.de/~ffundel/

Exercise 2

Use the same feedback files files to run a new verification.
Verify only the 00 UTC run.
Verify on 2 self-chosen subdomains or 2 station subsets.

Exercise 3

Make a conditional verification.
Verify in dependence of the cloud cover classes `N<=1, 0<N>7 and N>=7`.

Exercise 4 (optional)

Become acquainted with the table and
plot browsing tool for feedback files.

http://141.38.40.96:1111/users/ffundel/FdbkExplorer/
http://141.38.40.96:1111/users/ffundel/FdbkBrowser_Plot/

To load a file with these apps, copy it to your workstation 
home directory first.