General input and output structures in the CIF

This section describes the files and data structures that CIF reads and writes: the working directory layout, the observation and control-vector formats, auxiliary input data, and the diagnostic files generated at runtime.

• Working directory structure
  • Key files and conventions
  • Inversion-specific outputs
• Observations
  • Observation data to provide
  • How to specify what to do in the YAML file
  • Observation information computed by pyCIF
  • Observation data structure in pyCIF
  • Updating monitors from other versions of pyCIF
• Control vectors
  • pickle binary file
  • NetCDF file
  • Dumping and loading control vectors
• Observation vectors
  • NetCDF format
• Other input data
• Files for checks and debugging
  • Obs-operator diagnostic files
  • Data-vector debug files