Activities for week of March 7, 2016

• WRFHELP emails:
  • Question about using ADP data
  • Question about slow WRF runs after assimilation, turned out to be a WRF problem
  • Question about using restart files and update_BC for cycling runs (Texas A&M)
  • Question about assimilating composite reflectivity data
  • Problems running GEN_BE (determined it's a problem with the user's system)
• Commits to the trunk:
  
  • Added gen_be only compile from Jamie
  • Changed default "balance_type" from 1 to 3, based on feedback from Xin Li about new WPEC option
• Updating user's guide:
  
  • Added instructions for new WPEC option
  • Updating file names, removing and fixing some outdated stuff and typos
  • Corrections to the GEN_BE section
• Regression test
  
  • More updates to allow smpar and dm+sm tests
  • Print correct number of MPI and OPENMP tasks/threads for each test
  • Moving WRFPLUS builds to the "libs" directory
  • New tests: 4dvar_small and dual_res_hybrid
  • Cleaning up 4DVAR test build procedure
  • Allow for pre-generated "ep" folder for local hybrid tests
  • Some print and display updates
• Website
  
  • Adding known good/bad compiler versions for 3.7.1 release to yellowstone page
  • Adding fix for known CRTM problem for PGI 16.1

Activities for week of March 14, 2016

• WRFHELP emails:
  • Question about domain namelist settings in OBSPROC (Chinese Academy of Meteorological Sciences)
  • WRFDA compile issues; user error (Brian Etherton, NOAA)
  • Helped user trying to set up ensemble runs
• Commits to the trunk:
  • Fixed problems with random number seeds in RANDOMCV for gfortran
  • Added no-colons filename option for GENBE; requested by user
• More git-svn tests; met with HWRF people and they decided they don't need that capability so we will not try to keep separate git and svn repositories
• Emailed CISL help about problem with git modules on Yellowstone
• Regression test
  • Fixing more display problems
  • Adding test progress information for local machines

Activities for week of March 21, 2016

• WRFHELP emails:
  • Question about bad results from GEN_BE; related to nrange problem which has now been fixed
  • WRFDA runtime issues; probably out-of-memory condition (Brian Etherton, NOAA)
  • Question about observations and time windows (Texas A&M)
  • Question about different types of observation formats
  • User having problems with RANDOMCV to create ensemble members
  • Helping user format GPSPW and GPSZTD observations
  • Helping a different user with radar velocity observation format
• Running extensive tests to make sure code is ready for release; found issues with compiling ifort on Mac
• Prepared tutorial registration page
• Website: 
  • Updated WRFDA publications page
  • Added tentative summer tutorial schedule
• Sent Chris Snyder updated publication and institution use information for NSF purposes
• Learning how to initialize WRF/WRFDA through WPS with NAM data

Activities for week of March 28, 2016

• 1 day of PTO
• WRFHELP emails:
  • Question about compilation issues (turned out to be a problem with netcdf install)
  • Question about running outer loops with CV3
  • Trying to help a user seeing problems assimilating with background data from NAM
• Commits to the trunk:
  • Fixed WRFDA compilation problem for Mac machines
• Continuing to run tests in preparation for release
  • Still issues with intel compilers on local machines; at least one is probably a bug in the code
  • Found many problems with debug flags turned on; will wait until after release to fix
• Regression test
  • Fixing logic so that we don't try to compile 4DVAR code or run 4DVAR tests when WRFPLUS code does not exits