Now contains detailed information on which fields are mandatory/optional for each observation type
WRFHELP emails
Helped user from Kalinga Institute of Industrial Technology, India, with WRFPLUS compilation problem
Activities for week of June 19, 2017
PTO Tuesday morning
Regtest
Starting work on a new regression test to cover uncovered capabilities:
GENBE CV6
GPSRO in bufr format
SSMIS radiance
Discovered that there are not radiance_info files for DMSP-17 and 18, just 16. Will copy the existing file to cover 17 and 18 since the instrument is identical
Still working on obs talk
WEB
Finished up some details on new LITTLE_R page
Added landing page for downloading PREPBUFR2LITTLER converter:
WRFHELP emails
Answered email from Gerard Hesselmans (Netherlands govt) about humidity observations being silently rejected
Helping user from NC State running cycling system on Yellowstone
Activities for week of June 26, 2017
PTO Friday
Tested different GEN_BE BIN_TYPE options since they have never been tested before. They all work, and all produce different results, so I'll call that a pass.
Finished up testing new GEN_BE option for missing input data
Regtest
Continuing work on new regression test; running into problem with DMSP data
Finally finished obs talk, moving on to verification talk.
WRFHELP emails
Helped user from Wuhan university in assimilating GPSZTD obs
Replied to user trying to use WMO BUFR SEVIRI files
User from NC State was using restart files instead of output which caused the WRFDA failure...the error occurs way later in the executable than it should have!
Replied to user from Georgia Tech regarding a few different topics:
running into error with cu_physics=6 (Tiedke scheme) for 4DVAR; advised them to switch to cu_physics=1 since impact should be small and error may be hard to solve
Helped using length and variance scaling parameters for cloud_cv options
Replied to user form Scripps Institution of Oceanography (University of California, San Diego) asking for advice about different BIN_TYPE options in WRFDA
WEB
Minor fixes to LITTLE_R help page and PREPBUFR2LITTLER converter