Activities for week of September 7, 2015

  • Labor Day on Monday
  • Apparently not done with 4dvar rttov bug, still working with user; may tell them that there's not much more we can do to help
  • Still researching further problems with print_detail_be=true option
  • Regression test improvements:
    • Finished tests for ifort on loblolly, now up-to-date with current trunk
    • Investigating WRF/WRFDA build issue with local intel modules on Mac
  • Continuing to merge external contribution: Dynamic constraint for hybrid assimilation (Li et al., 2015)
  • Helping Jon test new /usr/local implementation for MMM
  • Sent out WRFDA tutorial survey results

Activities for week of September 14, 2015

  • Changes to trunk:
    • Fixed bug in OBSPROC dealing with bad observation values
  • Trying to fix issues compiling on local Macs with ifort 15
  • Adding OBSPROC regtest capability for FGAT and 4DVAR
  • To make above easier: overhauling Yellowstone regtest job-submission method: submission scripts now submitted in perl, and are auto-generated by subprogram
  • WRFHELP emails:
    • User from tutorial, trying to put their own multi-level wind observations into OBSPROC properly

 

Activities for week of September 21, 2015

  • Changes to trunk:
    • Change compile script so it quits immediately if user did not configure correctly for WRFDA
    • Add version numbers to output for easier debugging
    • Enable successful compilation with debug flags by removing those flags for BUFR libraries
  • Started looking at non-local GPS obs changes
  • WRFHELP emails:
    • Helped one user with cycling problem

 

Activities for week of September 28, 2015

  • Continuing to merge external Dynamic Constraint code
    • Gave presentation on code and how it will work
  • Communicating with RDA folks on WRFDA and what data we need

 

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