[Dart-dev] [7555] DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/README: so it' s the error standard deviation after all.

[nancy at ucar.edu]

Revision: 7555
Author:   nancy
Date:     2015-02-11 08:42:43 -0700 (Wed, 11 Feb 2015)
Log Message:
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so it's the error standard deviation after all.
better to have it documented and right.  we should
have this someplace else as well, but this is a start.

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--- DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/README	2015-02-10 23:00:31 UTC (rev 7554)
+++ DART/trunk/observations/obs_error/README	2015-02-11 15:42:43 UTC (rev 7555)
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@
 NCEP errors: 
 a 2005 version of the GFS observation error tables.
 
-Note that the return values from these modules
-should be the ERROR VARIANCE, not the standard deviation.
+(Note that the return values from these modules should be 
+the ERROR STANDARD DEVIATION.  In the obs_seq files, the
+value stored with each observation will be the variance.)
 
 Each center uses different errors, and these separate files
 make it easy to collect these values in one place, and switch