[Dart-dev] DART/trunk Revision: 12128

[dart at ucar.edu]

nancy at ucar.edu
2017-11-20 15:30:34 -0700 (Mon, 20 Nov 2017)
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add a 'updates' to the index.html file - as we push
changes to classic this should be kept up to date.

update the 1d 'obs to a power' forward operator documentation.

commit changes to the cesm 1.2.1 scripts that were added
to classic in august but not updated here.




Modified: DART/trunk/index.html
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--- DART/trunk/index.html	2017-11-20 22:28:59 UTC (rev 12127)
+++ DART/trunk/index.html	2017-11-20 22:30:34 UTC (rev 12128)
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@
 </tr>
 </table>
 
+<A HREF="#UserDocs">Documentation</A> /
+<A HREF="#Updates">Updates</A> /
 <A HREF="#Programs">Programs</A> /
 <A HREF="#Models">Models</A> /
 <A HREF="#Namelists">Namelist</A> /
@@ -85,24 +87,23 @@
 and then the <a href="tutorial/index.html">DART/tutorial</a> directory.
 </P>
 <P>
-The latest official release is named "Lanai".  
+The latest official release is named "Manhattan" but it does not
+include support for all the previous models.  Also, after many years
+of maintaining full backwards compatibility with previous releases,
+the Manhattan release is NOT backwards compatible with previous versions.  
+If you cannot use the Manhattan release, this version is named 'Classic' 
+and will continue to be supported.  Serious bugs will be fixed but 
+no new features will be added.
+</P>
+<P>
+Most of the Lanai release information still applies to Classic.
 See the extensive release notes 
 <a href="doc/html/Lanai_release.html">Lanai_release</a>
 which include installation help, a walk-through of building and
 running a model, and then examples of how to use the diagnostics
 to evaluate the success of the assimilation.
-See <a href="doc/html/Lanai_diffs_from_Kodiak.html">Lanai_diffs_from_Kodiak</a>
-for a brief summary of changes since Kodiak, including new functionality,
-new models and tools, and any non-backwards-compatible changes 
-since the Kodiak release.
 </P>
 <P>
-Future releases of DART are expected to have substantial changes 
-and will be less backwards compatible than has been historically 
-true with DART releases.
-New development will continue on a separate subversion branch.
-</P>
-<P>
 Every source file in the DART system has a corresponding .html file that 
 contains specifics for public interfaces in each of the DART modules, 
 for the executable programs which come with DART, and for
@@ -137,13 +138,6 @@
 </P>
 
 <P>
-For a shorter summary document of only the changes since the last release
-see <a href="doc/html/Lanai_diffs_from_Kodiak.html">Lanai_diffs_from_Kodiak</a>.
-This may be more helpful for current DART users who are 
-looking for pointers to differences when they update.
-</P>
-
-<P>
 Three tutorials, in PDF format, are available.  The first
 is more introductory and interactive with
 <A HREF="DART_LAB/DART_LAB.html">PDF documents and Hands-On 
@@ -167,6 +161,115 @@
 
 <!--==================================================================-->
 
+<A NAME="Updates"></A>
+<div class="top">[<a href="#">top</a>]</div><hr />
+<H2>Software Updates</H2>
+
+<P>
+Here are the subversion updates which have been
+committed since the original release of the Classic code.
+</P>
+
+<div>
+<TABLE border=0 cellpadding=10 width=100% summary='namelist description'>
+<THEAD align=left>
+<TR><TH> Commit Date </TH>
+    <TH> SVN Revision </TH>
+    <TH> Description </TH> </TR>
+</THEAD>
+
+<TBODY valign=top>
+
+<!-- The first line should be short and summarize
+ what kind of update this is: bug fix (serious or minor),
+ documentation update only, or code update.
+ Keep the summary short and as general as possible.
+ Gory details go in other html pages and the svn log.
+-->
+
+<!-- blank template for next update.
+<TR><TD>  </TD>
+    <TD>  </TD>
+    <TD>
+    </TD>
+</TR>
+-->
+
+<TR><TD> 20 Nov 2017 </TD>