MPAS-JEDI Tutorial Agenda

Please note that all times are US Mountain Daylight Time (UTC-6)

Thursday, 21 September

8:30 – 9:00 (30 mins) Registration
9:00 – 9:20 (20 mins) Welcome and Participants' Introduction Jake Liu
9:20 – 10:10 (50 mins) Fundamentals of Data Assimilation (slides) Chris Snyder
10:10 – 10:30 (20 mins) Photo Taken and Break
10:30 – 11:00 (30 mins) MPAS-JEDI Overview & Introduction to the practical exercises (slides) Jake Liu
11:00 – 11:30 (30 mins) Observations (1): Converting bufr obs to IODA format & HofX Application (slides) Junmei Ban
11:30 – 12:30 (60 mins) Practical session (1): code build/ctest, obs conversion, hofx
12:30 – 13:30 (60 mins) Lunch
13:30 – 14:00 (30 mins) Algorithms (1): 3D/4DEnVar (slides) Robert Nystrom
14:00 – 15:00 (60 mins) Attend MMM seminar or practice
15:00 – 15:15 (15 mins) Break
15:15 – 15:45 (30 mins) Observations (2): Assimilate "conventional" obs (slides) Junmei Ban
15:45 – 17:00 (75 mins) Practical session (2): 3D/4DEnVar with conventional obs

Friday, 22 September

9:00 – 9:45 (45 mins) Algorithms (2): 3DVar, Static B, and hybrid-EnVar (slides) Byoung-Joo Jung
9:45 – 10:30 (45 mins) Observations (3): Satellite radiance DA (slides) Jake Liu
10:30 – 10:45 (15 mins) Break
10:45 – 11:15 (30 mins) Algorithms (3): EDA and LETKF (slides) Tao Sun
11:15 – 12:30 (75 mins) Practical session (3): 3DVar/Hybrid with satellite radiance
12:30 – 13:30 (60 mins) Lunch
13:30 – 14:20 (50 mins) Workflow & Graphics packages (slides) Ivette Hernández Baños
14:20 – 14:35 (15 mins) Regional MPAS-JEDI (slides) Jake Liu
14:35 – 14:50 (15 mins) Break
14:50 – 16:30 (100 mins) Practical session (4): EDA/LETKF, Plot OMB/OMA, Regional