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+! CarbonTracker Data Assimilation Shell (CTDAS) Copyright (C) 2017 Wouter Peters. 
+! Users are recommended to contact the developers (wouter.peters@wur.nl) to receive
+! updates of the code. See also: http://www.carbontracker.eu. 
+!
+! This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the
+! terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, 
+! version 3. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but 
+! WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS 
+! FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. 
+!
+! You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this 
+! program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. 
+
+!!! Info for the CarbonTracker data assimilation system
+
+datadir         : /Storage/CO2/carbontracker/input/ctdas_2012/ 
+
+! For ObsPack
+obspack.input.id   : obspack_co2_1_GLOBALVIEWplus_v2.1_2016-09-02
+obspack.input.dir  : ${datadir}/obspacks/${obspack.input.id}
+obs.sites.rc       : ${obspack.input.dir}/summary/sites_weights_Dec2016.rc
+
+! Using a second ObsPack (from 1 January 2016)
+obspack.input.id2  : obspack_co2_1_NRT_v3.0_2016-06-06
+obspack.input.dir2 : ${datadir}/obspacks/${obspack.input.id2}
+obs.sites.rc2      : ${obspack.input.dir2}/summary/sites_weights_Dec2016.rc
+
+ocn.covariance  : ${datadir}/oceans/oif/cov_ocean.2000.01.nc 
+deltaco2.prefix : oif_p3_era40.dpco2
+
+bio.cov.dir     : ${datadir}/covariances/gridded_NH/
+bio.cov.prefix  : cov_ecoregion
+
+regtype         : gridded_oif30
+nparameters     : 9835 
+random.seed     : 4385
+regionsfile     : ${datadir}/covariances/gridded_NH/griddedNHparameters.nc
+random.seed.init: ${datadir}/randomseedinit.pickle
+
+! Include a naming scheme for the variables
+
+#include NamingScheme.wp_Mar2011.rc 
+
+! Info on the sites file used
+
+