INFRA

  • Spack-stack 1.9 (1.9.1) is ready for site installs and, should be tagged soon. 1.9.1 includes fixes for fckit and ectrans builds, and updated wgrib2
  • Updated discover spack-stack - note discover's 1.9.0 install includes all the 1.9.1 fixes  (Ashley)
  • Presubmit CI is now on 1.9  (Evan)
  • AWS Developer Instances  (Steve G)
  • We are skylab-CI before EOW (Evan)
  • Track platform installs on this spack stack issue: https://github.com/JCSDA/spack-stack/issues/1485.
  • New obs in the ingest suite: SSMIS, TEMPEST, and COWVR (Ashley + Obs. team)
  • R2D2 Finishing up optimizations of R2D2's new production server. (Eric)
  • Finishing up new testing framework (Steve G)
  • Added localhost Docker container for new R2D2 localhost server (Steve G)
  • Distributing instructions for test users to try it out on Hercules, Discover, and localhost today. (Eric)
  • We will switch over to the new system next Wednesday early in the morning. (Eric)

INTERFACES

  • added channel-selection to ObsSpace OSDF backend [SteveV and SteveH]
  • benchmarking the ObsGroup vs OSDF in IODA after implementing a crude/temporary means to populated the OSDF from the ObsGroup. Benchmark is using mpas-jedi H(x) application, focus on cris and iasi instruments with many channels. [SteveH]
  • enabling surface correction operator to handle geometry and geopotential heights as inputs [Raji]
  • working on VADER LVCs to make more flexible (see PRs, including saber and fv3jedi adaptions) [SteveV]
  • working on porting ectrans transforms to GPU [Liam]
  • building JEDI repos on Nvidia compilers [FrancoisH]
  • ongoing testing with Ricardo for improvements to the interpolations used with GSI-B in SABER [FrancoisH]OBS -

OBS

  • The 2nd ROMEX meeting took place in Darmstadt at EUMETSAT.
  • Presenters from all partners (NOAA, NASA, NRL & JCSDA participated in the meeting.
  • JCSDA (Hailing) presented results with the JEDI-based system. 

UFO

  • Mike Cooke’s PR #3610 has added the first leg of few PRs to complete varBC by record.  We need this reviewed by the impacted partners NOAA and NASA.
  • Nghi Do for from Scripps UCSD had a fix with an ROPP Airborne Radio Occultation ctest is not routinely exercised and had fallen behind.
  • JianJun has a series of PRs for all-sky implementation. The 1st one was merged to get potential temperature at selected levels. There are additional PRs, one in fv3-jedi, one on IODA conventions, and a third one adding a ctests of the function related to the cloud fraction calculations. Please review those PRs if you’re interested.
  • Praveen from NOAA has a PR to bring in Eumetsat Cloud and Aerosol Detection code in JEDI. That code was originally written by Andrew Collard.
  • Ricardo has a PR to provide options to set CO2 for passing into CRTM.  A constant which can be defined via yaml, or to enable a global Constant based on an equation derived from data at Mauna Loa. We are reviewing this and requesting the activation of the Mauna Loa feature and the addition of a ctest.

CRTM

  • The CRTM team is participating in the VIS/UV DA workshop held in Italy this week.
  • Pending PR on unit tests regarding surface emissivity currently under review.
  • Bug/issue regarding surface emissivity jacobians (V3.0+, reported by Jack Liu)
  • CRTM k-matrix unit test failures with intel compiler (reported by Evan)

COMPO

  • NASA presentation to the Earth Science Directorate about our TEMPO success
  • ISSI presentation about our advances in Visible L1b data assimilation
  • R2D2 discover switch to CSS
  • first set of TEMPO DA runs for publication finished
  • Help on aerosol dependency with SOCA OASIM development

SOCA

  • Travis has been working on general SOCA code optimization and AI based covariances
  • Kriti has been working on scientific testing of HTLM and having some issues which Christian is helping with
  • Discussion with Hernan: Travis plans on adding vertical impicit diffusion next AOP.
  • Hamideh has been working on wrapping her OASIM PRs

ALGO

Nate

  • merged PR in MPAS-JEDI and Skylab for using the CCPP model variable names with MPAS (a big thanks to BJ for his help with this)
  • fixed the MPAS 120km static B Skylab experiment (it needed a new background generated from the version of MPAS in the jedi-bundle). The new background will be ingested into r2d2 soon.
  • ProcessPerts for multi-scale localization is now in EWOK & Skylab.
  • Working on a fix in saber for letting process perts work better when increment includes surface fields.

Christian

  • Adding adaptive regularization and SVD truncation options to the HTLM. Testing with SOCA and GEOS
  • Testing Skylab additions for continuous DA
  • Slowly working to get single stream MPAS in Skylab
  • Continuing on continuous DA code changes in OOPS.

Clémentine

  • Doing some testing of our skylab experiments with spack 1.9.1
  • Narrowing down (?) on convergence issues with GEOS variational, debug mode failures from Dan, ... and other fv3jedi subtleties
  • Testing gsi 4denvar with Ricardo
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