Useful Software

The following free open-source tools have proven to be very useful:

  1. ncview: a great visual browser for netCDF files.
  2. the netCDF Operators (NCO): tools to perform operations on netCDF files like concatenating, differencing, averaging, ...
  3. Some sort of MPI environment. Put another way, DART does not come with MPICH, LAM-MPI, or OpenMPI; but we use them all the time. You should become familiar with the DART MPI introduction in mpi_intro.html.
And finally, Matlab® - which is not free nor open-source. I have not tried Octave in a long time ...


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DART verification datasets - under construction

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DART verification datasets - under construction

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DART tools/preprocessors/widgets - under construction

Datasets that are useful to test/exercise DART: the Data Assimilation Research Testbed.

The code distribution was getting 'cluttered' with datasets, boundary conditions, intial conditions, ... large files that were not necessarily interesting to all people who downloaded the DART code. Worse, subversion makes a local hidden copy of the original repository contents, so the penalty for being large is doubled. It just made sense to make all the large files available on as 'as-needed' basis.

Please feel free to offer constructive criticism or suggestions. My email is at the bottom of the page -- Tim

Please be patient as I make time to populate this directory. (yes, 'make', all my 'found' time is taken ...)



Observation sequence files



'raw' observation data files prepbufr



Model-specific files



WRF stuff



PBL1d stuff



Bgrid stuff



pe2lyr

DART/CAM Documentation and guidelines

The CAM model_mod.html contains the overview of the DART/CAM interfaces and The CAM cam_guidelines.html contains the overview of how to set up experiments, etc.