@mjs2369 Hi Marlee, when you get a chance can you review this pull request. For the review, looking for:

• check that the instructions for getting the WRFDA code, and where to copy the WRFDA code to make sense.
• check that the converter programs actually compile.

Helen, in addition to the comments above, there is the issue we discussed in which var.rst can only be found on the documentation website when searching for it (https://dart-documentation--362.org.readthedocs.build/en/362/observations/obs_converters/var/var.html?highlight=var). It can not be found in the list of docs for converter programs or elsewhere in the menu.

The changes made to the code allowed for a successful compile of the var converter using ./quickbuild.

Line 21 of observations/obs_converters/var/3DVAR_OBSPROC/README should have the directory as WRF/var/obsproc/MAP_plot/include as oppsosed to WRFDA/var/obsproc/MAP_plot/include, which doesn't exist (i.e. there is no /var directory in the WRFDA repo). The converter was tested and successfully compiled with the files found in WRF/var/obsproc/MAP_plot/include.

done.

Helen, in addition to the comments above, there is the issue we discussed in which var.rst can only be found on the documentation website when searching for it (https://dart-documentation--362.org.readthedocs.build/en/362/observations/obs_converters/var/var.html?highlight=var). It can not be found in the list of docs for converter programs or elsewhere in the menu.

The changes made to the code allowed for a successful compile of the var converter using ./quickbuild.

Added var to the list of obs converters

There seem to be two redundant links in DART/observations/obs_converters/var/var.rst

The links on lines 14 and 15, for :doc:./littler_tf_dart and :doc:./rad_3dvar_to_dart, lead to the current page (var.rst). Or in other words, the links don't take you anywhere.

The links work correctly in readthedocs output: https://dart-documentation--362.org.readthedocs.build/en/362/observations/obs_converters/var/var.html

but unfortunately the links do not work in GitHub. Possibly someone has solved this problem, but fixing this for the DART docs is out of scope for this

We are not the only people to have this problem, here is VAPOR's docs:
https://vapor.readthedocs.io/en/readthedocs/quickStartGuide.html
and here is what the rst for that page looks like on Github:
https://github.com/NCAR/VAPOR/blob/readTheDocs/docs/quickStartGuide.rst