[Dart-dev] DART/branches Revision: 11341

[dart at ucar.edu]

nancy at ucar.edu
2017-03-15 15:18:23 -0600 (Wed, 15 Mar 2017)
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updated the new features section a bit more, and
proofed the non-backwards compatible changes section.




Modified: DART/branches/rma_trunk/documentation/html/Manhattan_release.html
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--- DART/branches/rma_trunk/documentation/html/Manhattan_release.html	2017-03-15 21:12:07 UTC (rev 11340)
+++ DART/branches/rma_trunk/documentation/html/Manhattan_release.html	2017-03-15 21:18:23 UTC (rev 11341)
@@ -179,19 +179,19 @@
 <ol>
 
 <li> 
-We are no longer supporting DART formated restart files.  We can now
-directly read restart files in NetCDF format.  This is done by providing
-a <code>'input_state_file_list'</code> and <code>'output_state_file_list'</code> 
-in the filter namelist.  
+We no longer require model data to be converted to DART format restart files.
+We directly read and write NetCDF format only.  To specify the input and output
+files for filter, there are new namelist items in the &filter_nml namelist:
+<code>'input_state_file_list'</code> and <code>'output_state_file_list'</code> .
 </li>
 
 <li> 
+The information formerly in
 <em class=file>Prior_Diag.nc</em> and <em class=file> Posterior_Diag.nc</em> 
-have been broken up into multiple files.  Now we have options for writting out 
-files in four stages of the assimilation code 
-<code>'input', 'preassim', 'postassim', 'output'</code>. 
-This is set in the &amp;filter_nml  namelist with stages_to_write. Output files will
-be written to:
+has been moved.  If you are reading and writing ensemble members from
+different files, the state information, the ensemble mean and standard deviation,
+and the inflation mean and standard deviation will all be read and written to
+separate files:  
   <ul><li> <em class=file>[stage]_member_####.nc</em></li>
       <li> <em class=file>[stage]_mean.nc</em></li>
       <li> <em class=file>[stage]_sd.nc</em></li>
@@ -198,6 +198,22 @@
       <li> <em class=file>[stage]_priorinf_{mean,sd}.nc</em> (if prior inflation is turned on)</li>
       <li> <em class=file>[stage]_postinf_{mean,sd}.nc</em>  (if posterior inflation is turned on)</li>
   </ul>
+
+<br />
+If you are reading and writing ensemble members from a
+single file, all this information will now be in a single NetCDF file but
+will be stored in different variables inside that file:
+  <ul><li> <em class=file>[var].nc</em></li>
+      <li> <em class=file>[var]_mean.nc</em></li>
+      <li> <em class=file>[var]_sd.nc</em></li>
+      <li> <em class=file>[var]_priorinf_{mean,sd}.nc</em> (if prior inflation is turned on)</li>
+      <li> <em class=file>[var]_postinf_{mean,sd}.nc</em>  (if posterior inflation is turned on)</li>
+  </ul>
+<br />
+We also now have options for writing files at four stages of the 
+assimilation cycle:
+<code>'input', 'preassim', 'postassim', 'output'</code>. 
+This is set in the &amp;filter_nml  namelist with stages_to_write. 
 </li>
 
 
@@ -230,13 +246,13 @@
 
 
 <li>
-There are several namelist changes, mainly in the &amp;filter_nml and 
+There are several namelist changes mainly in the &amp;filter_nml and 
 &amp;perfect_model_mod which are outlined in detail in 
 <a href="html/Manhattan_diffs_from_Lanai.html">Manhattan_diffs_from_Lanai</a>
 </li>
 
 <li> 
-     All modules have been moved to have moved to 
+     All modules have been moved to 
      <em class=dir>DART/assimilation_code/modules/</em> 
      directory. And similarly all of the programs have moved to 
      <em class=dir>DART/assimilation_code/programs/</em>
@@ -255,7 +271,7 @@
 </li>
 
 <li>
-    The forward operators have moved from <em class=dir>obs_def/*mod</em> to
+    The forward operators have moved from <em class=dir>obs_def/obs_def_*_mod.f90</em> to
     <em class=dir>observations/forward_operators</em>
 </li>
 
@@ -267,7 +283,7 @@
 <li>
    The program <em class=file>fill_inflation_restart</em> is OBSOLETE since
    DART inflation files are now in NetCDF format. Now inflation files can be filled
-   using <em class=program>ncap2</em>.  Here is an exapmle using version 4.4.2 or later
+   using <em class=program>ncap2</em>.  Here is an example using version 4.4.2 or later
    of the NCO tools:
 <pre>
   ncap2 -s "T=1.0;U=1.0;V=1.0" wrfinput_d01 prior_inf.nc'
@@ -280,9 +296,10 @@
    be more consistent with current compiler versions.</li>
 </li>
 
-<li> 
-Sampling error correction reads from a netcdf file that supports multiple 
-ensemble sizes
+<li>If you enable the sampling error correction option, the required
+data is now read from a single netcdf file which supports multiple
+ensemble sizes.  A program is provided to compute additional ensemble
+sizes if they are not in the default file.