Activities for week of March 7, 2016

  • WRFHELP emails:
    • Question about using ADP data
    • Question about slow WRF runs after assimilation, turned out to be a WRF problem
    • Question about using restart files and update_BC for cycling runs (Texas A&M)
    • Question about assimilating composite reflectivity data
    • Problems running GEN_BE (determined it's a problem with the user's system)
  • Commits to the trunk:
    • Added gen_be only compile from Jamie
    • Changed default "balance_type" from 1 to 3, based on feedback from Xin Li about new WPEC option
  • Updating user's guide:
    • Added instructions for new WPEC option
    • Updating file names, removing and fixing some outdated stuff and typos
    • Corrections to the GEN_BE section
  • Regression test
    • More updates to allow smpar and dm+sm tests
    • Print correct number of MPI and OPENMP tasks/threads for each test
    • Moving WRFPLUS builds to the "libs" directory
    • New tests: 4dvar_small and dual_res_hybrid
    • Cleaning up 4DVAR test build procedure
    • Allow for pre-generated "ep" folder for local hybrid tests
    • Some print and display updates
  • Website
    • Adding known good/bad compiler versions for 3.7.1 release to yellowstone page
    • Adding fix for known CRTM problem for PGI 16.1

Activities for week of March 14, 2016

  • WRFHELP emails:
    • Question about domain namelist settings in OBSPROC (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)
    • WRFDA compile issues; user error (Brian Etherton, NOAA)
    • Helped user trying to set up ensemble runs
  • Commits to the trunk:
    • Fixed problems with random number seeds in RANDOMCV for gfortran
    • Added no-colons filename option for GENBE; requested by user
  • More git-svn tests; met with HWRF people and they decided they don't need that capability so we will not try to keep separate git and svn repositories
  • Emailed CISL help about problem with git modules on Yellowstone
  • Regression test
    • Fixing more display problems
    • Adding test progress information for local machines

 

Activities for week of March 21, 2016

  • WRFHELP emails:
    • Question about bad results from GEN_BE; related to nrange problem which has now been fixed
    • WRFDA runtime issues; probably out-of-memory condition (Brian Etherton, NOAA)
    • Question about observations and time windows (Texas A&M)
    • Question about different types of observation formats
    • User having problems with RANDOMCV to create ensemble members
    • Helping user format GPSPW and GPSZTD observations
    • Helping a different user with radar velocity observation format
  • Running extensive tests to make sure code is ready for release; found issues with compiling ifort on Mac
  • Prepared tutorial registration page
  • Website: 
    • Updated WRFDA publications page
    • Added tentative summer tutorial schedule
  • Sent Chris Snyder updated publication and institution use information for NSF purposes
  • Learning how to initialize WRF/WRFDA through WPS with NAM data

Activities for week of March 28, 2016

  • 1 day of PTO
  • WRFHELP emails:
    • Question about compilation issues (turned out to be a problem with netcdf install)
    • Question about running outer loops with CV3
    • Trying to help a user seeing problems assimilating with background data from NAM
  • Commits to the trunk:
    • Fixed WRFDA compilation problem for Mac machines
  • Continuing to run tests in preparation for release
    • Still issues with intel compilers on local machines; at least one is probably a bug in the code
    • Found many problems with debug flags turned on; will wait until after release to fix
  • Regression test
    • Fixing logic so that we don't try to compile 4DVAR code or run 4DVAR tests when WRFPLUS code does not exits

 

 

 

 

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