Brett Raczka

OK -- my final question. Is the reducing factor (localization of inflation) applied the same way to *spatial* localization and *variable* localization? In other words, is any localization (reducing factor)...

Thanks @jlaucar and @mgharamti. Even though variable localization is accounted for when updating inflation, it seems to me there is nothing in the code that enforces the condition that prior...

Thanks for your input @kdraeder. I wanted to make sure we were on the same page in terms of the definition of 'trusted obs'. I agree with your first statement...

@hkershaw-brown and @mgharamti and I will take the lead on the leaf area (MOD15A2) and snow cover fraction portion of this MODIS doc cleanup.

The MOD15A2_to_obs docs are out of date, but could be salvaged with both code and docs revisions. Just keeping some notes for now, for when I revisit this: 1) This...

> WRF PHB is read from a wrfinput template file, but is PHB in every wrf file? If so it is "Per ensemble member static data" that is equal for...

Thanks @hkershaw-brown for including these references. Based on our group conversation today I will address this for now with better documentation to always use THM, not T -- and perhaps...

Forgot to mention that DART uses the `MAP_PROJ` integer attribute from the WRF land/atm files to assign the integer in DART. This is read within[ read_wrf_file_attributes](https://github.com/NCAR/DART/blob/9906662b975598a52730a059c56aa36ff81460e2/models/wrf/model_mod.f90#L7116)

I don't know if WRF generates MAP_PROJ = 0 anymore. I guess at some point it did, perhaps the 'lat-lon' projection at one point was at '0', but testing version...

> just for reference, i looked up some older wrfinput_d01 files from CONUS runs and they use map projection 1. so maybe this change wouldn't break anything. What was the...