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)