# AMET Pre and Post AQ Plots

**URL:** <https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/amet-pre-and-post-aq-plots/1498>\
**Category:** AMET\
**Created:** [May 14, 2020, 7:54pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/amet-pre-and-post-aq-plots/1498 "2020-05-14T19:54:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![lawless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@lawless](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lawless)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 2:30pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/amet-pre-and-post-aq-plots/1498/22 "2020-05-27T14:30:47Z")

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Yes there were two of them

One for 201003  
[amet\_extract\_all\_PXM\_LandUse\_AQ.log.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/5qiZxfemjFXO4m6ZJo6Scmrhfuj.txt) (138.4 KB)

And another for 201004  
[amet\_extract\_all\_PXM\_LandUse\_AQ.log.txt](https://forum.cmascenter.org/uploads/short-url/4yJEybDmAiae1aw7rAokBu03Nw2.txt) (421.3 KB)

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**Author:** ![wyat.appel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/3d9bf3/32.png) [@wyat.appel](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/wyat.appel)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 3:51pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/amet-pre-and-post-aq-plots/1498/23 "2020-05-27T15:51:59Z")

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Thanks. I see what’s going on now. The first error AMET runs into is that it can’t find the site\_metadata files. It’s looking in /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/2010/site\_metadata\_files/ for them, but they are not there.

Assuming you already download them, my guess is they are probably in /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/site\_metadata\_files. If not, let me know and we can fix that problem, either by downloading the metadata files and putting them in there, or moving them from another directory. I also assume you put the 2010 observation files in /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/2010/. By default, AMET is going to look for the specific year files in $OBS\_DATA\_DIR/YYYY. You don’t need to specify the year in the path. AMET will append that automatically.

So, in your aqProject\_pre\_and\_post.csh script, you can set the OBS\_DATA\_DIR to /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/. AMET will automatically look for the 2010 data in the 2010 subdirectory. Also, if you do have the site metadata files in /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/site\_metadata\_files, changing the OBS\_DATA\_DIR will also fix that issue.

So, the fix to your problem could be as simply as changing the OBS\_DATA\_DIR from /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ/2010 to /home/pkasper/AMET\_v14/obs/AQ. Give that a try and see what happens. But make sure your obs data and site metadata files are in the correct directories first.

Wyat

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**Author:** ![lawless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@lawless](https://forum.cmascenter.org/u/lawless)\
**Post date:** [May 27, 2020, 6:24pm UTC](https://forum.cmascenter.org/t/amet-pre-and-post-aq-plots/1498/24 "2020-05-27T18:24:51Z")

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That did the trick! Thank you so much.

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