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hello dart-users,<br>
<br>
we've committed a new update to the DART Manhattan release.<br>
changes are detailed below. probably of the most interest are:<br>
this version includes a new variation of adaptive inflation;<br>
the WRF experiment cycling scripts have been updated; and the<br>
diagnostics and matlab scripts now support a DART quality<br>
control flag value 8, meaning the observation failed the vertical<br>
conversion part of the process. <br>
<br>
the full summary of changes are:<br>
<br>
- Enhanced inflation algorithm added. See the filter_mod.html for
new<br>
documentation on this option.<br>
<br>
- Updated WRF cycling scripts for the Manhattan release.<br>
<br>
- Obs_diag reports statistics on DART QC 8, observation failed
vertical<br>
conversion. Matlab scripts also updated to support QC 8.<br>
<br>
- New parallel conversion scripts for GPS Radio Occultation
observations and<br>
NCEP prepbufr conversions.<br>
<br>
- Further updates to documentation files to change KIND to QTY or
Quantity.<br>
<br>
- Documented required changes when moving from the Lanai/Classic
release to<br>
Manhattan in documentation/html/Manhattan_diffs_from_Lanai.html<br>
<br>
- Expanded the routines in the netcdf_utilities_mod.f90<br>
<br>
- Add an ensemble handle parameter to the 6 ensemble manager
routines<br>
where it was missing.<br>
<br>
- The advance_time program can read/generate CESM format time
strings<br>
(YYYY-MM-DD-SSSSS).<br>
<br>
- Fixed a bug in the netcdf read routines that under certain
circumstances<br>
could report an array was using the unlimited dimension incorrectly.<br>
<br>
- Removed the option to try to bitwise reproduce Lanai results; due
to the<br>
number of changes this is no longer possible.<br>
<br>
- Minor bug fixes to the (seldom used) perturb routines in the WRF<br>
and MPAS_ATM model_mod.f90 files. (used to add gaussian noise to a<br>
single model state to generate an ensemble; this is never the
recommended<br>
method of starting a new experiment but the code remains for testing<br>
purposes.)<br>
<br>
- Several remaining model-specific model_mod_check programs were<br>
removed in favor of a single common program source file.<br>
<br>
- Keep filter_mod.dopplerfold.f90 in sync with filter_mod.f90,<br>
and assim_tools_mod.pf.f90 in sync with assim_tools_mod.f90.<br>
<br>
- Removed makefiles for the obsolete trans_time program.<br>
<br>
<br>
as always, please contact <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:dart@ucar.edu">dart@ucar.edu</a> with questions or reports of<br>
problems.<br>
<br>
thanks,<br>
nancy, on behalf of the DART development team<br>
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