General notes (Yannick):

• No announcements, only reports today. 

COMPO (Jerome):

• Good progress, able to cycle EDA with 4DEnVar, needs refactoring in ewok to accommodate that, working on that to demonstrations
• Maryam is simplifying GEOS-CF model tasks to run efficiently
• Jerome is working on the ingest suite for TEMPO
• Shih-Wei is looking at reflectances for AOD assimilation (different aerosol), work in progress, looking at plots

Marine (Travis):

• Travis was on vacation, Kriti and Hamideh kept working.

OBS (Hui):

• The group is short-handed due to vacations and absences.
• No Pat since last report.
• A major PR regarding observation space reduction has been merged. That works for h(x) now, and it's going to be adjusted for DA later
• Work on converters for various data types is ongoing
• The UFO CRTM interface is supporting version 3.0. Feedback from partners using version 2.4.0 has been received, and Francois & BenJ will discuss compatibility issues.
• Collaboration with NCAR on MPAS-JEDI and OU for the radar operator is evolving. A PR is pending on NCAR's review.
• Fabio presented results testing TMS TROPICS at the WMO Impact conference.
• Hailing has ongoing work on super refractions in UFO JEDI, with major filters available in UFO showing promising results.
• Planning to continue work on aircraft VarBC now that the convention has been merged into develop. A clear timeline is desired.
• Space weather work is in the initial stages. Py-IRI will be added to the JEDI bundle. A summer space weather workshop is scheduled for August 28-29, 2024, limited to US participants (CU, Navy, etc.), with an international workshop planned for later.

CRTM:

• No attendance today.

INFRA (Evan):

• Nightly CI is temporarily down.
• Final development of R2D2 for the new version is in progress, with the majority of changes still in separate branches. A major update is expected later this year.
• Ashley is working on the TEMPO ingest suite.
• Target release for version 1.8 is the end of August 2024. Please report any additional requirements.
• Progress is being made on a new PCluster.
• Integration of JEDI Py-IRI with our bundles requires significant work; currently, it is being installed using "pip.

JEDI (Yannick):

• New hire, Liam, will be working with FrançoisH

EMC (Dan):

• Ron's PR for the IODA BUFR reader is in progress.
• Ron is also working on MPI for the BUFR reader.

GMAO (Ricardo):

• Limited updates; ongoing tests with the latest OOPS updates. Most tests pass without issue.
• Discussing different configurations for observing systems and BUFR reader migration with EMC.
• Interacting with Clémentine about GEOS JEDI runs to replicate GMAO processes.
• Unable to receive JEDI state to GEOS; efforts are ongoing to adapt IAU to receive JEDI states.

MetOffice (Mayeul):

• CI for GitHub has been added to MetOffice.
• Observations side:
  • Working on 3D-FGAT suites and hyperspectral IR with correlated observation error, currently behaving as the current system.
  • AMV and other observations approved for trials.
  • Reprocessing of obs for land DA
  • Reprocessing observations for land DA and testing Doppler radial winds for regional DA (Mike Cook is leading this).
  • Batch trials with seven different types of observations.
• Model side:
  • Two model interfaces for LFRIC (lite and standard) are near freeze.
  • Improvements in the interface for the TL model.Hernan demonstrated interest on radial wind for ocean

MMM (BJ):

• Software engineers are making good progress on integrating the latest MPAS version with the MPAS-JEDI interface.