INFRA
- Spack-stack 1.9 (1.9.1) is ready for site installs and, should be tagged soon. 1.9.1 includes fixes for fckit and ectrans builds, and updated wgrib2
- Updated discover spack-stack - note discover's 1.9.0 install includes all the 1.9.1 fixes (Ashley)
- Presubmit CI is now on 1.9 (Evan)
- AWS Developer Instances (Steve G)
- We are skylab-CI before EOW (Evan)
- Track platform installs on this spack stack issue: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/issues/1485.
- New obs in the ingest suite: SSMIS, TEMPEST, and COWVR (Ashley + Obs. team)
- R2D2 Finishing up optimizations of R2D2's new production server. (Eric)
- Finishing up new testing framework (Steve G)
- Added localhost Docker container for new R2D2 localhost server (Steve G)
- Distributing instructions for test users to try it out on Hercules, Discover, and localhost today. (Eric)
- We will switch over to the new system next Wednesday early in the morning. (Eric)
INTERFACES-
- added channel-selection to ObsSpace OSDF backend [SteveV and SteveH]
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- benchmarking the ObsGroup vs OSDF in IODA after implementing a crude/temporary means to populated the OSDF from the ObsGroup. Benchmark is using mpas-jedi H(x) application, focus on cris and iasi instruments with many channels. [SteveH]
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- enabling surface correction operator to handle geometry and geopotential heights as inputs [Raji]
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- working on VADER LVCs to make more flexible (see PRs, including saber and fv3jedi adaptions) [SteveV]
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- working on porting ectrans transforms to GPU [Liam]
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- building JEDI repos on Nvidia compilers [FrancoisH]
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- ongoing testing with Ricardo for improvements to the interpolations used with GSI-B in SABER [FrancoisH]OBS -
OBS
- The 2nd ROMEX meeting took place in Darmstadt at EUMETSAT.
- Presenters from all partners (NOAA, NASA, NRL & JCSDA participated in the meeting.
- JCSDA (Hailing) presented results with the JEDI-based system.
UFO
- Mike Cooke’s PR #3610 has added the first leg of few PRs to complete varBC by record. We need this reviewed by the impacted partners NOAA and NASA.
- Nghi Do for from Scripps UCSD had a fix with an ROPP Airborne Radio Occultation ctest is not routinely exercised and had fallen behind.
- JianJun has a series of PRs for all-sky implementation. The 1st one was merged to get potential temperature at selected levels. There are additional PRs, one in fv3-jedi, one on IODA conventions, and a third one adding a ctests of the function related to the cloud fraction calculations. Please review those PRs if you’re interested.
- Praveen from NOAA has a PR to bring in Eumetsat Cloud and Aerosol Detection code in JEDI. That code was originally written by Andrew Collard.
- Ricardo has a PR to provide options to set CO2 for passing into CRTM. A constant which can be defined via yaml, or to enable a global Constant based on an equation derived from data at Mauna Loa. We are reviewing this and requesting the activation of the Mauna Loa feature and the addition of a ctest.
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