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)