Notes on use of PBO processing scripts

These scripts assume that GAMIT/GLOBK is installed and the standard gg link exists.  The scripts included here are the operational scripts.  These scripts can be used to reference to an ftp area where subdirectories NMT and CWU would contain SINEX and RMS files generated by the PBO Acs.  For most users, the simpler method is to put the SINEX and RMS files in the subdirectories NMT_snx and CWU_snx.  The RMS files are not needed to generate position time-series but some of the summary scripts will report errors if the RMS files do not exist (these errors can be ignored if phase RMS values are not of interest).  

A small number of SINEX files generated by the AC have been saved in the NMT_snx and CWU_snx files for testing.  These files are for 2012 12 31 (all solutions) and 2013 01 01 rapid solution.  This latter file is included because the sh_rapid_ts shell script that generates rapid time series files will only generate values for dates that are after the last final orbit solution processed.  The scripts also contain features unlikely to be used by other users such as the ldm option which queues solution to LDM to be transferred to UNAVCO.

To test the solutions use the following commands to be executed in the export/control directory.
csh PBO_final.cmd -d 2012 366 -m `whoami` -clear > & ! FIN_12366.out 
sh_final_ts -w 1721
csh PBO_rapid.cmd -d 2013 6 -m `whoami` -clear -ts > & ! RAP_13006.out 
Other solutions that can run are
csh PBO_suppl.cmd -d 2012 366 -m `whoami` -clear >&! SUP_12366.out
csh PBO_supp6.cmd -d 2012 366 -m `whoami` -clear >&! SU6_12366.out
csh PBO_repro.cmd -d 2012 366 -m `whoami` -clear >&! REP_12366.out
After each of these runs, the corresponding sh_<type>_ts script is used to generate the time-series files.

Notes on above solutions:
Since final, suppl, supp6 and repro solutions are usually processed one week batches, the time series files are created after the last day of the week has been processed and so above we explicitly show the use the time series generation script/

When using these scripts, you should regularly update the earth orientation parameter (EOP) a priori values using GAMIT script sh_update_eop.  
In the export/tables directory use:
sh_update_eop -ser usno
Information after station meta data should be kept update by down loading station.info from the GAMIT/GLOBK ftp site into the export/tables directory.  In general, the tables directory for your GAMIT/GLOBK installation should be updated regularly.  (The station.info file in export/control could be linked to ~/gg/tables/station.info to ensure it is kept up to date.

Meta data errors are reported in the processing scripts and the example data given show how changes in the antenna phase center models can effect the results. (Models for two antennas were changed between the original finals processing and the values used now).


