INFRA - Dom
Working on data ingest and other things for the coming release.
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- Work on upcoming Skylab v7 release - address bug fixes and finalize data ingest tasks
- Roll out of spack-stack-1.6.0 on all platforms; this release is not used for the Skylab v7 release (it uses 1.5.1), but we expect to switch over within the first quarter of 2024
- Ongoing work on data ingest suite (more observations, test running MPAS experiments in near real-time)
- More repositories were onboarded in the Terraform Github management tool; additional repositories (fv3-jedi and mpas-jedi related) are being discussed at management level and are currently on hold
coming. But not for this skylab version.ALGO - Christian
4D ensemble covariances now also available via SABER covariances
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Score calculation progress
OBS - Hui
Greg and Ben J. Working on something with CRTM
Greg- QC flags and filters
Winds decoders
New Obs error models (Lindsey)
Fabio - MPAS Jedi
VarBC
Super refraction (Hailing)Obs team is actively working with CRTM to further improve the reflectance assimilation capability. Its prototype was implemented and tested in the past quarter; Obs team has also added QC flags entry into all UFO operators, which opens the pathway to limit the UFO simulations to the observations passing QC filters. The use of QC flags has been implemented to the CRTM operator at this point. Coordinated PRs among OOPS, UFO, UFO-data are under review; Meanwhile, OBS team is actively working on optimize observation models for both MW and RO, which allows adaptive errors to be used in different weather scenarios (e.g., cloudy areas, ducting situations); MetOffice visitoring program continues to support the OBS team to refactor the RO operators and allow the separation of filters and operators for this particular obs type.
CRTM - Cheng
CRTM v3.1.0 was released on Dec 21th, 2023, with new features such as active sensor and DDA cloud tables. We are working on finalizing the user guide for CRTM v3.1.0.
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