[Dart-dev] [4544] DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/dewpoint_obs_err_mod.f90: As agreed in last week's wrf/dart meeting after looking at experiments

[nancy at ucar.edu]

Revision: 4544
Author:   nancy
Date:     2010-10-26 16:40:07 -0600 (Tue, 26 Oct 2010)
Log Message:
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As agreed in last week's wrf/dart meeting after looking at experiments
done by so-young, the default dewpoint obs error has been dropped from 
0.10 to 0.05, and the minimum rh is now 0.20 instead of 0.10.

Modified Paths:
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    DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/dewpoint_obs_err_mod.f90

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Modified: DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/dewpoint_obs_err_mod.f90
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--- DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/dewpoint_obs_err_mod.f90	2010-10-26 19:48:50 UTC (rev 4543)
+++ DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/dewpoint_obs_err_mod.f90	2010-10-26 22:40:07 UTC (rev 4544)
@@ -39,10 +39,10 @@
 real(r8), intent(in) :: tmpk                   ! temperature (Kelvin)
 real(r8), intent(in) :: rh_in                  ! relative humidity (0.00-1.00)
 
-real(r8), parameter  :: rh_error = 0.10_r8     ! guess for instrument + representativeness error
+real(r8), parameter  :: rh_error = 0.05_r8     ! guess for instrument + representativeness error
 real(r8), parameter  :: t_error = 1.0_r8       ! guess for instrument + representativeness error
 
-real(r8), parameter  :: rh_min = 0.10_r8
+real(r8), parameter  :: rh_min = 0.20_r8
 real(r8), parameter  :: rh_max = 1.00_r8
 real(r8), parameter  :: delta_rh = 0.01_r8     ! perturbation for finite differencing
 real(r8), parameter  :: delta_t  = 0.1_r8      ! perturbation for finite differencing