<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>I'm trying to make things a bit simpler and have set my sights</div><div>on some obsolete portions of obs_diag.f90 and a one-off program</div><div>"wind_obs_to_table.f90".</div><div><br></div><div>To summarize: I want to remove some code from obs_diag that prints</div><div>the locations, and I want to totally remove the program wind_obs_to_netcdf.</div><div>All of these functions are already supported by obs_seq_to_netcdf.</div><div><br></div><div>Please give me your thoughts on the issue.</div><div><br></div><div>obs_diag has a 'print_obs_locations' feature that prints the locations</div><div>of the incoming observations - a function that is totally duplicated by</div><div>the obs_seq_to_netcdf program. Rather than maintain both of them,</div><div>I'd like to remove the print_obs_locations functionality. Just convert</div><div>the observation sequence file to netCDF and everything is there,</div><div>and you can then explore the data with a lot of tools. The location</div><div>output from obs_diag lacks the metadata to really make it useful anyway.</div><div>It's time to remove that functionality from obs_diag. Speak now ...</div><div><br></div><div>Similarly, wind_obs_to_table.f90 was written as a one-off program that</div><div>is now totally duplicated by obs_seq_to_netcdf. The output of wind_obs_to_table</div><div>was plotted by 'DART/diagnostics/matlab/plot_wind_vectors.m'. This function</div><div>has been totally rewritten (and extended) to use the output of obs_seq_to_netcdf.</div><div>In many ways, wind_obs_to_table made some very scary assumptions about how to</div><div>pair up U&V components, the new way is much less scary to me.</div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div>Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist</div><div>National Center for Atmospheric Research</div><div><a href="mailto:thoar@ucar.edu">thoar@ucar.edu</a></div><div>303 497 1708</div></span>
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