Tim,<div><br></div><div> I actually use a lot of the "plot_observation_locations" since it is easy and quick to use and generate some ps files.</div><div><br></div><div>hui<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:00 AM, Tim Hoar <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thoar@ucar.edu" target="_blank">thoar@ucar.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>obs_diag is very complicated and difficult to maintain.</div><div>I'd like to simplify it.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Since we can get the location information from ANY observation sequence (<a href="http://obs_seq.in" target="_blank">obs_seq.in</a>, 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.</div>
<div><br></div><div>How negatively would that impact people?</div><div><br></div><div>Speak up and tell me what you think!</div><div><br></div><div>Long version: If I can require that the [prior/posterior]_ensemble_mean and</div>
<div>[prior/posterior]_ensemble_spread are present in the file, I can remove a lot</div><div>of the checking. This means only "obs_seq.final" files would be supported in obs_diag.</div><div><br></div><div>
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