Table of Contents - The Atmospheric Studies Group at TRC

Section 8: CALMET Model Files
• User-selected portion of horizontal grid printed for all gridded meteorological fields. Options
include printing entire grid, subset of grid, or a single data point.
• User-selected time period(s) printed.
• User-selected printing time interval.
• User-selected format for display of gridded meteorological fields (self-scaling exponential
format or fixed format).
Two input files are read by PRTMET: a user-input control file and the unformatted meteorological data
file containing the gridded wind and micrometeorological fields generated by CALMET. The output file
PRTMET.LST contains the printed data selected by the user. PRTMET also produces a user defined
number of plot files. A time-series output file is created whenever a single grid point is selected for
processing. Table 8-29 contains a summary of the input files and output files for PRTMET.
The format of the PRTMET control input file follows the same rules as those used in the CALMET.INP
file (refer to the CALMET section for details). Only data within the delimiter characters (!) are processed.
The input data consist of a leading delimiter followed by the variable name, equals sign, input value or
values, and a terminating delimiter (e.g., !XX = 12.5!). PRTMET.INP may be created/edited directly
using a conventional editor, or it may be created/edited indirectly by means of the PC-based, Windowscompatible
Graphical User Interface (GUI) developed for the geophysical preprocessors (CALPRO). A
sample input file is presented in Table 8-30. A description of each of the inputs is provided in Table 8-31.
PRTMET extracts and prints the data selected by the user from the CALMET data file. A sample output
file is shown in Table 8-32. A sample contour plot file and a sample vector plot file are shown in Table 8-
33 and Table 8-34, respectively. A sample time-series output file is shown in Table 8-35.
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