Generate initial conditions for FLARE

Usage

generate_initial_conditions(
  states_config,
  obs_config,
  pars_config = NULL,
  obs,
  config,
  obs_non_vertical
)

Arguments

states_config: list; list of state configurations
obs_config: list; list of observation configurations
pars_config: list; list of parameter configurations (Default = NULL)
obs: array; array of the observations. Required dimensions are [nobs, time, depth]
config: list; list of configurations
obs_non_vertical: list; observations of variables that don't have vertical dimension.

Value

list; list contains the initial conditions objects required by run_da_forecast()

Details

Function to generate initial conditions from either default values in the states_config, observations (if available), or a previous run using the output as a restart file.

Author

Quinn Thomas