[Dart-dev] [4805] DART/trunk/diagnostics/matlab/link_obs.m: Better documentation on how to use the little paintbrush to

nancy at ucar.edu nancy at ucar.edu
Tue Mar 22 13:32:40 MDT 2011


Revision: 4805
Author:   thoar
Date:     2011-03-22 13:32:40 -0600 (Tue, 22 Mar 2011)
Log Message:
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Better documentation on how to use the little paintbrush to
enable the data brushing.

Modified Paths:
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    DART/trunk/diagnostics/matlab/link_obs.m

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Modified: DART/trunk/diagnostics/matlab/link_obs.m
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--- DART/trunk/diagnostics/matlab/link_obs.m	2011-03-21 16:37:16 UTC (rev 4804)
+++ DART/trunk/diagnostics/matlab/link_obs.m	2011-03-22 19:32:40 UTC (rev 4805)
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 function link_obs(fname, ObsTypeString, ObsCopyString, CopyString, QCString, region)
 %% link_obs generates the 'brushable' observation plots.
 %
-% 	Three figures will be generated. In order to make any sense of this
+% 	Three figures will be generated.
 %
 %	Figure 1 will have a 3D geographic scatterplot.
 %
@@ -53,6 +53,14 @@
 % region        = [0 360 -90 90 -Inf Inf];
 % link_obs('obs_epoch_002.nc','RADIOSONDE_TEMPERATURE', 'observation', ...
 %          'prior ensemble member 3', 'DART quality control', region)
+%
+% IMPORTANT: click on the little paintbrush icon in order to activate the
+% 'brushable' feature on the plots. Once that is highlighted, any observations
+% selected in one view become highlighted in ALL the views. 
+%
+% ALSO IMPORTANT: If you are using the Matlab GUI, doubleclick on 'obsmat' in
+% the the Workspace window to generate a spreadsheet-like view of the 
+% observations which is also linked to the data brushing.
 
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