GFS vs. RAP data in GEOCAT (for ProbSevere)
I want to see the benefit (if any) of using RAP data in GEOCAT vs. GFS data. Jason, please look at some times when we get emiss11_tot errors near the tropopause (there are bunch on 4/5/2017 and 5/15-16/2017). These are easily distinguished by the blocky nature of emiss11_tot in anvils.
Start with 1/2 hour or so, and run GEOCAT with RAP hdf data (we already have the answer for GFS). Do this work on gusto, and make sure you use gfortran-compiled GEOCAT (i.e.,module load gcc/6.1 and associated hdf4 lib). Then you can run the geocat output through the remapping utility, so take a look at the netcdfs and see how much improvement there is. Also take note of the runtimes for the GEOCAT runs.