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Add snow depth error inflation based on elevation difference from model - #80

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Description

This PR adds ability to adjust/inflate the snow depth error as a function of the difference between observation location elevation and that of the target model grid cell. This reduces the impact of observations that may be horizontally close enough but have large elevation relief.

Issue(s) addressed

Resolves #<issue_number>
Addresses NOAA-EMC/GDASApp#2251

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Impact

Expected impact on downstream repositories:
Requires revision of the jcg-gdas configs for snow observations in GDASApp/parm
Corresponding PR in GDASApp:

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  • I have performed a self-review of my own code
  • I have made corresponding changes to the documentation
  • I have run the unit tests before creating the PR

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Opened this PR in JCSDA-internal, closing this.

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