[Dart-users] group question for obs_diag changes

[Tim Hoar]

obs_diag is very complicated and difficult to maintain.
I'd like to simplify it.

Since we can get the location information from ANY observation sequence (obs_seq.in, 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.

How negatively would that impact people?

Speak up and tell me what you think!

Long version: If I can require that the [prior/posterior]_ensemble_mean and
[prior/posterior]_ensemble_spread are present in the file, I can remove a lot
of the checking. This means only "obs_seq.final" files would be supported in obs_diag.

Tim Hoar, Associate Scientist
National Center for Atmospheric Research
thoar at ucar.edu
303.497.1708

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