Changes between Version 12 and Version 13 of OMI_observation_operators

Timestamp:

Dec 18, 2021, 1:05:16 PM (2 years ago)

Author:

lnerger

Comment:

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OMI_observation_operators

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 The current set of observation operators provided by PDAF-OMI is rather fundamental. However, there are also observation types which are not variables of state vector, but functions of several values. Likewise one might want to use a more sophisticated interpolation than the linear one or some interpolation that treats the horizontal and vertical directions separately. For these cases you can implement you own operators.
 
-The observation operators in /src/PDAFomi_obs_op.F90 can be used as examples.
+The template observation operator in /template/omi/ob_op_pdafomi_TEMPLATE.F90 can be used as the basis for the implementation. It describes the steps needs in the implementation.
 
 Each observation operator include the following functionality:
  1. Check whether `thisobs%doassim==1`, which indicates that the observation is assimilated
  2. initialize the observation vector `ostate_p` for the observation type for which the routine is called. For a parallel model this is done for for the process-local domain (for a model without parallelization this is the global domain)
- 3. Call `PDAFomi_gather_obsstate` to gather the full observation vector `obs_f_all`. This call is mandatory even if the model is not parallelized.
+ 3. Call `PDAFomi_gather_obsstate` to gather the full observation vector `obs_f_all`. This call is mandatory even if the model is not parallelized. The interface is:
+{{{
+  SUBROUTINE PDAFomi_gather_obsstate(thisobs, obsstate_p, obsstate_f)
+
+    TYPE(obs_f), INTENT(inout) :: thisobs  ! Data type with full observation
+    REAL, INTENT(in) :: ostate_p(:)        ! Vector of process-local observed state
+    REAL, INTENT(inout) :: obs_f_all(:)    ! Full observed vector for all types
+}}}
 
 Generally one can implement any function that computes an observation from the elements of the state vector that is provided to the routine as `state_p`. The coordinate information is provided in `thisobs`. One can also modify the interface to the obsration operator routine if, e.g., additional information is required.