Oh, right. my bad. Sx is the apriori, not the retrieval error *facepalm*
Thanks, Simon!

On Thu, Nov 28, 2019 at 7:55 AM Simon Pfreundschuh <
simon.pfreundsc...@chalmers.se> wrote:

> > The covmat_sx is output (as far as my little OEM knowledge goes). And as
> a curious user, I of course like to know what is in my output/what's the
> meaning of my output (and not just half of it. > particularly when it makes
> me getting unsure, whether I use the right part of this
> larger-than-expected output variable) ;)
> > looking forward to the next release then! :)
>
>
> This is not true though. The particular covariance matrix format is used
> only for the input covariance matrices.
>
> The ones that can be considered output (covmat_ss, covmat_so) are
> generally dense so there's nothing to be gained
>
> in representing them as block-diagonal matrices.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Simon
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Jana Mendrok <jana.mend...@gmail.com>
> *Sent:* Wednesday, November 27, 2019 7:42:26 PM
> *To:* Simon Pfreundschuh
> *Cc:* Rita Kajtar; arts_users...@mailman.rrz.uni-hamburg.de
> *Subject:* Re: [arts-users] atm.scenario & cov-mat issues
>
> Hi Simon, hi all,
>
>
>> I might have expressed myself not very clearly but I remain convinced
>> that the assertion
>>
>> is caused by the pressure retrieval grid. The smallest value in it is
>> smaller than that in
>>
>> the pressure grid. This is similar but unrelated to the first error where
>> the p_grid extended
>>
>> out of the range of the raw p_grid.
>>
> I see (I indeed misunderstood you before. Sorry.).
>
> I agree, this then should be caught by an error (with a proper error
> message).
>
>
>> Regarding covariance matrices: There is currently no extensive
>> documentation for  covariance matrices
>>
>> but documentation of workspace groups is something that we are working on
>> for the next release.
>>
>> Anyhow, the user in general does not have to worry about the inverse
>> blocks if she doesn't want to set
>>
>> them explicitly.
>>
> The covmat_sx is output (as far as my little OEM knowledge goes). And as a
> curious user, I of course like to know what is in my output/what's the
> meaning of my output (and not just half of it. particularly when it makes
> me getting unsure, whether I use the right part of this
> larger-than-expected output variable) ;)
> looking forward to the next release then! :)
>
> Finally, there was another bug in the loading of the covariance matrices
>> from xml files, which caused
>>
>> the behavior that you were describing. This one is fixed now in the
>> development version of typhon.
>>
> Ok, thanks!
>
> Regards,
> Jana
>
>
>
> --
> Jana Mendrok, Ph.D.
> Deutscher Wetterdienst
> Offenbach am Main, Germany
>
> +49 (0)69 8062 3139
>


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Deutscher Wetterdienst
Offenbach am Main, Germany

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