[Dart-dev] <P>Jump/ Revision: 12955

Thu Jan 10 15:36:26 MST 2019

thoar at ucar.edu
2019-01-10 15:36:26 -0700 (Thu, 10 Jan 2019)
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The SST converters from Romain Escudier from while he was at Rutgers.
He has a private GIT repo https://github.com/romain-escudier/Porthobs
that I have forked as     https://github.com/timhoar/Porthobs

Updated the observations.html page as it did not have a lot of the converters.
There are still some undocumented converters ... I put placeholders in the 
Programs section. Many converters/directories are only documented with a README ...




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+<HTML>
+<HEAD>
+<TITLE>DART sst_to_obs, oi_sst_to_obs</TITLE>
+<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../../../documentation/html/doc.css" />
+<link href="../../../documentation/images/dart.ico" rel="shortcut icon" />
+</HEAD>
+<BODY>
+<A NAME="TOP"></A>
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+<H1>PROGRAM <em class=program>sst_to_obs, oi_sst_to_obs</em></H1>
+
+<table border=0 summary="" cellpadding=5>
+<tr>
+    <td valign=middle>
+    <img src="../../../documentation/images/Dartboard7.png" alt="DART project logo" height=70 />
+    </td>
+    <td>
+       <P>Jump to <a href="../../../documentation/index.html">DART Documentation Main Index</a><br />
+          <small><small>version information for this file: <br />
+          <!-- version tag follows, do not edit -->
+          $Id$</small></small>
+       </P></td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<A HREF="#Namelist">NAMELIST</A> /
+<A HREF="#Decisions">DECISIONS</A> /
+<A HREF="#Errors">ERRORS</A> /
+<A HREF="#FuturePlans">PLANS</A> /
+<A HREF="#Legalese">TERMS OF USE</A>
+
+<H1>Overview</H1>
+
+<p>There are two gridded SST observation converters in this directory, 
+one for data from PODAAC, and one from NOAA/NCDC.
+<em class=program>sst_to_obs</em> converts data from PODAAC and has been used
+by Romain Escudier for regional studies with ROMS.
+<em class=program>oi_sst_to_obs</em> converts data from NOAA/NCDC and has been 
+used by Fred Castruccio for global studies with POP.
+</p>
+
+<H4>sst_to_obs -- GHRSST to DART Observation Sequence Converter</H4>
+
+<P>These routines are designed to convert the 
+<a href="https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/AVHRR_OI-NCEI-L4-GLOB-v2.0"
+> GHRSST Level 4 AVHRR_OI Global Blended Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) from NCEI data</a>
+ distributed by the 
+<a href="http://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov">Physical Oceanography Distributed Active Archive Center</a>.
+Please remember to cite the data in your publications, 
+<a href="https://podaac.jpl.nasa.gov/dataset/AVHRR_OI-NCEI-L4-GLOB-v2.0"
+>specific instructions from PODAAC are available here.</a> This is an example:
+</P>
+
+<blockquote>
+National Centers for Environmental Information. 2016. GHRSST Level 4 AVHRR_OI 
+Global Blended Sea Surface Temperature Analysis (GDS version 2) from NCEI.
+Ver. 2.0. PO.DAAC, CA, USA. Dataset accessed [YYYY-MM-DD] at 
+http://dx.doi.org/10.5067/GHAAO-4BC02.
+</blockquote>
+
+<P><strong>Many thanks to Romain Escudier (then at Rutgers) who did the bulk 
+of the work and graciously contributed his efforts to the DART project.</strong>
+Romain gave us scripts and source code to download the data from the PODAAC 
+site, subset the global files to a region of interest, and convert that 
+subsetted file to a DART observation sequence file. Those scripts and programs
+have been only lightly modified to work with the Manhattan version of DART
+and contain a bit more documentation.
+</P>
+
+<P>
+The workflow is usually:
+</P>
+<ol>
+<li>compile the converters by running <em class=program>work/quickbuild.csh</em>
+    in the usual way.
+    </li></br>
+
+<li>customize the <em class=file>shell_scripts/parameters_SST</em>
+    resource file to specify variables used by the rest of the scripting.
+    </li></br>
+
+<li>run <em class=program>shell_scripts/get_sst_ftp.sh</em>
+    to download the data from PODAAC.
+    </li></br>
+
+<li>provide a mask for the desired study area.
+    </li></br>
+
+<li>run <em class=program>shell_scripts/Prepare_SST.sh</em>
+    to subset the PODAAC data and create the DART observation sequence files.
+    Be aware that the <em class=program>Prepare_SST.sh</em> modifies
+    the <em class=file>shell_scripts/input.nml.template</em> file and
+    generates its own <em class=file>input.nml</em>.
+    <em class=file>work/input.nml</em> is not used.
