Activities for week of October 5, 2015

• Major update to publications page on website:
  
  • added new papers for 2015
  • went through all old links to remove ones that had nothing to do with WRFDA
  • marked MM5 papers as such
  • added comments to keep track of numbers and which papers only use part of the system
  • fixed broken links, bad characters, typos, etc.
  • added author full names where available
• Tested new RTTOV release 11.3; made fix so that WRFDA can use it.
• Updated "WRFDA User Groups Lists"

Activities for week of October 12, 2015

• More web updates:
  • Added RTTOV 11.3 fix to website
  • Removed flag banner from home page; it was causing menus to not display correctly in Internet Explorer
  • Some other miscellaneous fixes
  • Added a few more publications
• More fixes to dynamic constraint branch, began updating from initial version (release 3.4.1) to current version of trunk
• Added new regression test which uses SSMI/S and ATMS data, which were not tested in the past
• Working on fix for VARBC cycling problem

Activities for week of October 19, 2015

• Changes to trunk:
  • Fix for VARBC cycling issues to resolve wrfhelp user's complaint
  • Fix for RTTOV 11.3
• Continued updating dynamic constraint branch
• WRFHELP emails:
  • Answered question about GPS slant delays (we do not have this capability)

Activities for week of October 26, 2015

• Finished updating dynamic constraint branch to current trunk version
• Helped Kevin Manning with a 3.7.1 obsproc bug...Jamie applied fix to trunk
• Started making script for automatically generating WRF ensembles for Hybrid tests