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PROGRAM create_obs_sequence

Contact: Jeff Anderson
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Revision: $Revision: 1.3 $
Release Name: $Name: iceland $
Change Date: $Date: 2005/02/22 16:37:32 $
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OVERVIEW

This program can create an observation sequence file using input from standard in. It can be run interactively, or input files can be created and redirected into standard in. The latter method is most commonly used to create larger observation sequence files for perfect model application. The program can create complete observation sequences with both quality control fields and copies of data associated with each observation. For perfect model application, it is usually convenient to define 0 quality control fields and 0 copies of the data for each observation. The output of create_obs_sequence can be read by perfect_model_obs which will then create a synthetic (perfect_model) observation sequence complete with two copies of the data for each observation (the observed value and the 'true' value).


Another common approach for perfect model applications is to use create_obs_sequence to create a set of observations that will remain fixed in time. This can be done by having zero copies of data values associated with each observation and defining all observations to be at the same time. The program create_fixed_network_sequence can read the output of create_obs_sequence and can be used to create an observation sequence that will observe all of the observations at a number of different times (see create_fixed_network_sequence).




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utilities_mod
obs_sequence_mod
assim_model_mod



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