[Dart-dev] DART/branches Revision: 12553

[dart at ucar.edu]

nancy at ucar.edu
2018-04-23 18:11:53 -0600 (Mon, 23 Apr 2018)
161
fix up the misleading comments at the top of the
script; update the README to include the scripts for
the ionospheric obs as well as the radio occultation obs.




Modified: DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/README
===================================================================
--- DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/README	2018-04-23 22:12:49 UTC (rev 12552)
+++ DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/README	2018-04-24 00:11:53 UTC (rev 12553)
@@ -4,6 +4,8 @@
 #
 # DART $Id$
 
+Radio Occultation atmPrf profiles:
+
 Description of the scripts provided to process the COSMIC and 
 CHAMP GPS radio occultation data.
 
@@ -62,6 +64,24 @@
 this allows you to keep the total disk usage lower.
 
 
+Ionospheric obs ionPrf data:
+
+0) run quickbuild.csh as described above
+
+1) get_daily.csh
+
+set the start and stop days.  downloads from the CDAAC and
+untars into 100s of files per day.  runs the converter to
+create a single obs_seq.ion.YYYYMMDD file per day.
+
+2) split_obs_seq.csh
+
+split the daily files into X minute/hour files - set the
+window at the top of the file before running.
+
+
+Set the dates at the top
+
 # <next few lines under version control, do not edit>
 # $URL$
 # $Revision$

Modified: DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/get_daily.csh
===================================================================
--- DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/get_daily.csh	2018-04-23 22:12:49 UTC (rev 12552)
+++ DART/branches/openggcm/observations/obs_converters/gps/shell_scripts/get_daily.csh	2018-04-24 00:11:53 UTC (rev 12553)
@@ -8,10 +8,13 @@
 
 # make a single obs_seq file with all the profiles for a single day
 #
-# input is 100s of individual netcdf files, each containing a single profile.
+# downloads the daily tar file from the CDAAC (set your user name
+# and password below), untars it into 100s of individual netcdf files,
+# one profile per file.
 #
-# this assumes you have already downloaded a tar file per day into 
-# the 'raw' directory and unpacked it there.
+# runs the converter to create a single obs_seq.ion.YYYYMMDD file
+# with all the obs for that day.
+#
 
 
 # set start and end YYYYMMDD here.