Activities for week of December 7, 2015

  • Hosted WRF developers meeting on Friday Dec 11, made several commits:
    • Fixed compilation issue for HDF5
    • Cleaned up HDF5 and WRFPLUS include statements to avoid warning messages at compile time
    • Major bug fix for CV7: incorrect calculations were performed for several control variables in the initial implementation
    • Major cleanup of CV7: skipping unnecessary subroutines, renaming variables and file/directory names to reflect their contents, omitting junk data from be.dat
  • Regtest improvements:
    • Hybrid Regtest capability now works, have a hybrid test based on the realtime system.
    • Adding capabilities for HDF5 and NETCDF4 tests; still issues that need addressing
  • Running a lot of NETCDF4 tests to try to replicate the slowdown problems Rizvi has seen

Activities for week of December 14, 2015

  • One day of PTO
  • Working on further GEN_BE CV7 cleanup, including fixing a segmentation fault
  • Testing radar bug fixes sent by Ying Zhang
  • Working on some compilation problems reported with MADIS2LITTLER
  • Answering WRFHELP questions (3):
    • External user (Texas A&M University) reported above MADIS2LITTLER problems
    • External user (Zhou Lilong from CMA National Meteorological Center) reported bug in 4DVAR compilation for AIX
    • Helped user with questions about LITTLE_R and BUFR observations

Activities for week of December 21, 2015

  • Three days of PTO, one day Holiday
  • WRFHELP:
    • Answered one question about assimilating surface observations
  • Made 4 commits:
    • Finally got dynamic constraint code into trunk
    • Committed 4DVAR compilation fix for AIX from Zhou Lilong
    • Radar bug fixes from Ying Zhang
    • More CV7 cleanup changes, fixing segmentation fault

Activities for week of December 28, 2015

  • One day of PTO, one day Holiday
  • Made comments on AMSR2 paper
  • Added AMSR2 regression test (still only works for Intel on Yellowstone)
  • Still trying to replicate MADIS2LITTLER issue, need to hear back from user
  • Working on further cleanup of HDF5 compilation, eliminating warning messages from WRF/WRFPLUS compilation
  • WRFHELP questions (4):
    • Assimilating text and prepbufr obs at once
    • Viewing be.dat stats in real space (Thomas Schwitalla, University of Hohenheim)
    • Compilation problem (2)

 

 

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