OBS
- UFO and IODA converter PR backlog getting cleaned up
- Hui and Ben out next two weeks for conference, Pat Nichols will take care of PRs
- Use last week of September to review, clarify, update documentation for UFO for release
- Add synop metar ascat winds to JEDI release testing
- UFO PRs: please capture dependencies correctly (e.g. on data)
- ioda-converter PR 1006: working with NOAA query-cxx, needs new bufr 11.7.1
CRTM
- Working on coefficients for ATMS on JPSS-2 for Mark Liu and updated GEMS-2 coefficients for Francois V.
- Assisting others with CRTM 2.4 update for UFO
COMPO
- Finished UFO modifications for trace gases
- Working on ingest of trace gas observations into R2D2
- Working on GHCP interface and additional converters
LAND
- No update
SOCA
- No update
INFRA
- spack-stack now also on S4, in total: Discover (Intel, GNU), Orion (Intel, GNU), S4 (Intel), Gaea (Intel), Cheyenne (Intel, GNU)
- Will roll out new bufr 11.7.1 on all these platforms next week - until next spack release, this is not default, need to load manually after loading default modules
- New containers soon, with updated bufr 11.7.1
- Four crtm versions will be available in spack-stack in next release
- Orion data tfx - Dom deleting original data, link to Clementine's data or final location
- IODA yaml refactoring (Steve)
- Impacts obs data in generate out --> only obs_data_in, obs_data_out with rearrangement of parameters underneath
- Every yaml file with an obs section will need to be updated --> coordinated effort
- Plan is to provide a script to automatically update 90%+ of the files (from Fabio) - script is in feature branch in UFO
- Will provide companion PRs for UFO and FV3 - use as guide for other models
- Watch out for this in the next several days
- Clementine started to list the repos that are impacted in the IODA issue #713 - need to tag corresponding people
- Try to limit support requests to Steve H. to morning times (MT) - he will need to prioritize support requests to what is important for the release
- r2d2-data repository was migrated to git-lfs, this required a rewrite of the repo's history; users need to wipe out their local clones and reclone
- MPAS-Model repositories (public, internal) needed to be fixed, this required a rewrite of the repo's history; users need to wipe out their local clones and reclone
ALGO
- Testing EDA at different resolution as the data becomes available on Orion
- PRs for hybrid tlm, PRs in VADE
- Steve V. will present next Thursday on model variable naming conventions
- Change 3DVar in Skylab to 3Dfgat for DA test part of Skylab - will also be in release
- Work on masked interpolation - PR is being tested now