[Dart-dev] [4358] DART/trunk/diagnostics/threed_sphere/obs_diag.html: Minor revision to the DART QC table. Tried to

nancy at ucar.edu nancy at ucar.edu
Tue May 11 10:59:33 MDT 2010


Revision: 4358
Author:   nancy
Date:     2010-05-11 10:59:33 -0600 (Tue, 11 May 2010)
Log Message:
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Minor revision to the DART QC table.  Tried to make the descriptions
of the numbers more clear, and changed the headings slightly because
they were a little misleading.

Modified Paths:
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    DART/trunk/diagnostics/threed_sphere/obs_diag.html

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Modified: DART/trunk/diagnostics/threed_sphere/obs_diag.html
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--- DART/trunk/diagnostics/threed_sphere/obs_diag.html	2010-04-21 23:05:18 UTC (rev 4357)
+++ DART/trunk/diagnostics/threed_sphere/obs_diag.html	2010-05-11 16:59:33 UTC (rev 4358)
@@ -188,22 +188,19 @@
 <table width="80%">
    <tr><th align="left">DART QC flag value</th><th align="left">meaning</th></tr>
    <tr><td>0</td><td>observation assimilated</td></tr>
-   <tr><td>1</td><td>observation evaluated only</td></tr>
+   <tr><td>1</td><td>observation evaluated only (because of namelist settings)</td></tr>
 
-   <tr><th align="left" colspan=2>DART QC values higher than this means the prior and posterior are OK, but ...</th></tr>
+   <tr><th align="left" colspan=2>DART QC values higher than this means the prior is OK, but ...</th></tr>
 
    <tr><td>2</td><td>assimilated, but the posterior forward operator failed</td></tr>
-   <tr><td>3</td><td>Evaluated only, but the posterior forward operator failed</td></tr>
+   <tr><td>3</td><td>evaluated only, but the posterior forward operator failed</td></tr>
 
-   <tr><th align="left" colspan=2>DART QC values higher than this means only the prior is OK, but ...</th></tr>
+   <tr><th align="left" colspan=2>DART QC values higher than this were not assimilated because ...</th></tr>
 
    <tr><td>4</td><td>prior forward operator failed</td></tr>
-   <tr><td>5</td><td>not used because of namelist control</td></tr>
-
-   <tr><th align="left" colspan=2>DART QC values higher than this are bad news.</th></tr>
-
-   <tr><td>6</td><td>prior QC rejected</td></tr>
-   <tr><td>7</td><td>outlier rejected</td></tr>
+   <tr><td>5</td><td>not used because observation type not listed in namelist</td></tr>
+   <tr><td>6</td><td>rejected because incoming observation QC too large</td></tr>
+   <tr><td>7</td><td>rejected because failed outlier threshold test</td></tr>
    <tr><td>8+</td><td>reserved for future use</td></tr>
 </table>
 


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