[Dart-users] group question for obs_diag changes

Hui Liu hliu at ucar.edu
Wed Nov 14 11:09:49 MST 2012


Tim,

  I actually use a lot of the "plot_observation_locations" since it is easy
and quick to use and generate some ps files.

hui

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Hoar <thoar at ucar.edu> wrote:

> obs_diag is very complicated and difficult to maintain.
> I'd like to simplify it.
>
> Since we can get the location information from ANY observation sequence (
> obs_seq.in, obs_seq.out, obs_seq.final) by converting the observation
> sequences to a netCDF file (with obs_seq_to_netcdf) - I would like to
> remove the 'plot_locations' functionality from obs_diag.
>
> How negatively would that impact people?
>
> Speak up and tell me what you think!
>
> Long version: If I can require that the [prior/posterior]_ensemble_mean and
> [prior/posterior]_ensemble_spread are present in the file, I can remove a
> lot
> of the checking. This means only "obs_seq.final" files would be supported
> in obs_diag.
>
> Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist
> National Center for Atmospheric Research
> thoar at ucar.edu
> 303.497.1708
>
>
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