From 236556143dc8309a0b55dcaad5c735aa52401336 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: John Halley Gotway Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 16:04:11 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Per #2887, tweak the wording. --- docs/Users_Guide/config_options.rst | 27 +++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/Users_Guide/config_options.rst b/docs/Users_Guide/config_options.rst index ed5bc92ba3..25515fc524 100644 --- a/docs/Users_Guide/config_options.rst +++ b/docs/Users_Guide/config_options.rst @@ -2347,9 +2347,9 @@ grid_weight_flag ---------------- The "grid_weight_flag" specifies how grid weighting should be applied -during the computation of contingency tables (CTC, MCTC, PCT, NBRCTC), -partial sums (SL1L2, SAL1L2, VL1L2, VAL1L2), and statistics (CNT, CTS, -MCTS, PSTD, PRC, PJC, ECLV, NBRCNT, and NBRCTS). +during the computation of contingency tables (CTC, MCTC, PCT, and +NBRCTC), partial sums (SL1L2, SAL1L2, VL1L2, and VAL1L2), and statistics +(CNT, CTS, MCTS, PSTD, PRC, PJC, ECLV, NBRCNT, and NBRCTS). It is meant to account for grid box area distortion and is often applied to global Lat/Lon grids. It is only applied for grid-to-grid verification in Grid-Stat and Ensemble-Stat and is not applied for grid-to-point @@ -2370,23 +2370,22 @@ the NetCDF output from Grid-Stat and Ensemble-Stat. When computing partial sums and continuous statistics, the weights are first normalized by dividing by the sum of the weights for the current -masking region. - -When computing contingency tables and deriving statistics, each cell -contains the sum of the weights of the matching grid points rather than -the integer count of those grid points. Statistics are derived using these -sums of weights rather than the raw counts. +masking region. When computing contingency tables and deriving statistics, +each contingency table cell contains the sum of the weights of the matching +grid points rather than the integer count of those grid points. Statistics +are derived using these sums of weights rather than the raw counts. When no grid weighting is requested (**NONE**), contingency tables are -populated using a default constant weightand the corresponding cells are -written to the output as integer counts. +populated using a default constant weight of 1.0 and the corresponding cells +are written to the output as integer counts for consistency with earlier +versions of MET. .. note:: The FHO line type is not compatible with grid weighting. If requested - with grid weighting, Grid-Stat prints a warning message and automatically - disables the FHO line type. Users are advised to request the CTC line type - instead. + with grid weighting enabled, Grid-Stat prints a warning message and + automatically disables the FHO line type. Users are advised to request the + CTC line type instead. .. code-block:: none