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