2025-12-18

StephenH has made good progress with getting skylab-atm-land with high resolution (million obs) working with the new OSDF container. Cycles are completing successfully, but results don't quite match up with ObsGroup case.
SteveV and Raji continue to work on UFO backlog, adding small enhancements, bug fixes and documentation.
Adding Open MP code to Vertical Interpolation operator and QC flags to be used in RTTOV TLAD operator.
A couple of more pR's merged that build individual components for the OSDF MPI Distribution work. These individual components all built and work, has started on higher level workflow of Distribution.
Fabio is developing a new Vader Recipe that produces geopotential height.
Shih-Wei wrote Vader documentation for some recipes he developed earlier.

Merged set of PRs adding a filter mode to NICAS so that it can be used in the SABER ProcessPerts application used for scale separation for Multi-Scale background errors
About to merge a PR removing the dual-resolution arguments from BUMP (let me know if you are using this feature & the merge can be delayed for you to adjust)
PR open for hybrid and ensemble B with continuous DA
PR for some HTLM speed up by pre computing atlas views. 3x faster updateIncTl, updateIncAd, and coefficient compute functions.

Similar to most filters the where is a recognized option - PR: Adding where check in Specific Humidity variable transform #3919
NOAA, EMC and UKMO converge on convention for Snow - PR: Add snowArealDensity variable mapping #3925
Links for GEOS-19 ABI CRTM coefficients, no unit test uses them but they are available.
Tech Debt reduction - PR: Eliminate gnu compiler warning #3929, Add "exclusive" range endpoint parameters to two filters #3922

Experimenting Marine GMS17 and Aerosol Retro.
Working on option to remove GsIBEC repo out of spackstack and clone from develop instead of Tag.

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