Activities for week of June 6, 2016

• 3 days PTO (Wed-Friday)
• WRFHELP emails:
  • Helping Indonesian user with GEN_BE concepts
  • Helping user with segmentation fault when turning on thin_rainobs option. Probably issue with code
  • User asked about prepbufr -> little_r converter ( Peking University)
  • Helping visitor Chester Huang running GENBE on Yellowstone
• Commits to the trunk:
  
  • none
• Working on bug fix for problem with rain_thinning option (ref user email above)
• Modifying regression test script to work with github

Activities for week of June 13, 2016

• 1 day PTO (Monday)
• WRFHELP emails:
  • Still helping user with segmentation fault when turning on thin_rainobs option. Referred problem to Junmei.
  • User having trouble compiling on Cray machine with "ftn" compiler  (Colorado State University)
  • Helping user trying to run radar assimilation with new options (INPE/Brazil)
  • Further question from same Indonesian user from last week
• Commits to the trunk:
  
  • none
• Working on bug fix for problem with rain_thinning option (ref user email above)
• Hosted wrf-dev meeting (1pm Friday)
• Making corrections to user's guide with help from Jamie and Jenny
• Ran regular WRF/WRFDA regression tests

Activities for week of June 20, 2016

• Hosted wrf-dev meeting (1pm Friday)
• Set up new laptop computer (bacon)
• Commits to the trunk:
  
  • Adding ftn.setup file for CRTM compile with ftn compiler
  • Cleaned up some radiance output, made error message for missing leapsec.dat clearer
• WRFHELP emails:
  
  • Helping Russian user with formatting her own LITTLE_R observations, as well as running OBSPROC
  • Helped user with namelist problem for 4DVAR
• Ran regular WRF/WRFDA regression tests
• Added WRFDA beta release page for new cloudy radiance capability (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfda/beta.html)

Activities for week of June 27, 2016

• WRF Workshop most of the week
• Commits to the trunk:
  
  • none
• WRFHELP emails:
  
  • Still Helping Russian user with formatting her own LITTLE_R observations
• Updated tutorial page for LITTLE_R format for a couple user questions (http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfda/OnlineTutorial/Help/littler.html)
• Ran regular WRF/WRFDA regression tests
• Regression test improvements:
  • Add ability to pull code from git repository
  • Add ability to check out specific branch from git repository
  • Add capability to run test on bacon (new mac laptop)
  • Add custom "libs" directory, move WRFV3 code there for cycling tests for consistency