Activities for week of December 4

• Aerocivil Colombia tasks
  • Continuing setup of GEN_BE code
    • Cheyenne not letting me submit qsub jobs from command line, opened CISL help ticket because otherwise I have to completely rearrange my workflow
• RAL retreat and Christmas party Tuesday
• Started work on verification workflow
  • Fixed some problems due to wrfinput and wrfbdy
  • Ran into unrelated problems running WRF with a different core arrangement (trying to reduce cost and speed up the testing and troubleshooting process)
    • Turns out this was just Cheyenne being Cheyenne
  • Workflow now runs through WRF forecast with reduced core count and wallclock time, but Cheyenne is still being Cheyenne so now rocotto is broken.
• Attended CISL seminar on how to use Caldera/Geyser from Cheyenne
• Evaluated and gave feedback on project proposals from Louisa

Activities for week of December 11

• Aerocivil Colombia tasks
  • Continuing setup of GEN_BE code
    • CISL replied to previous problem, PBS does not work well with command-line, refactored script to use a submission script.
    • Ran successfully after solving the last Yellowstone→Cheyenne porting issues! (for WRFDA version)
• Verification Workflow
  • Running into new issue with rocoto, contacted Jamie and CISL
  • Rocoto got fixed Wednesday, WRF runs successful!
    • May need to make some namelist changes
  • UPP failing
    • Made new fix files necessary for UPP 3.1
    • Still hitting GRIB2 issues
    • Got a potential fix from Jeff Beck, could not test it due to Cheyenne being down
• Docker tutorial
  • Comments for the first few pages
  • Had trouble testing due to lag on local machine, opened ticket with RAL IT