WRF Basic Tutorial Agenda
 

Monday - January 26, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 7:15

 

08:00

Registration and Coffee

 

08:30

Welcome and ParticipantsŐ Introduction

Joe Klemp

09:00

WRF Overview

Jimy Dudhia

09:30

WPS – Description of General Functions

Michael Duda

10:30

Coffee Break

 

11:00

Real – Description of General Functions

Dave Gill

12:00

Lunch Break

 

01:00

WRF and WPS: Compile

Jamie Wolff

01:30

WPS: Set up and Run

Michael Duda

02:15

Coffee Break

 

02:45

WRF: Set up and Run

Wei Wang

03:45

Practice Instructions

Cindy Bruyere

04:00

Practice Session 1
(WPS, WRF)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:15 and 5:45 pm

 

Tuesday - January 27, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am for Group 2 and 9:00 am for Group 1

08:00

Practice Session 1
(WPS, WRF)

GROUP 2

09:00

Coffee

 

09:30

ARW Dynamics and Numerics

Bill Skamarock

11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:30

NMM Dynamics and Numerics

Matthew Pyle

12:30

Lunch Break

 

01:30

Nesting in WRF

Dave Gill

02:45

Coffee Break

 

03:15

Post-processing Tools (1): NCL

Cindy Bruyere

04:00

Post-processing Tools (2): WRFpost

Matthew Pyle

04:30

Practice Session 2
(WPS, WRF, graphics)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:45 and 6:15 pm

 

 

Wednesday - January 28, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am for Group 2 and 9:00 am for Group 1

08:00

Practice Session 2
(WPS, WRF, graphics)

GROUP 2

09:00

Coffee

 

09:30

WRF Registry and Examples

Dave Gill

11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:30

Nesting Setup

Wei Wang

12:00

ARW Nudging

Jimy Dudhia

 

 

 

12:30

Tutorial Get-Together

 

 

 

 

01:45

WRF Physics (1)

Jimy Dudhia

02:45

Coffee Break

 

03:00

Post-processing Tools (3): RIP

Cindy Bruyere

03:30

Post-processing Tools (4): ARWpost

Cindy Bruyere

04:00

Practice Session 3
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:15 and 6:15 pm

 

 

Thursday - January 29, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am for Group 2 and 9:00 am for Group 1

08:00

Practice Session 3
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 2

09:30

Coffee

 

10:00

WPS Advanced Usage

Michael Duda

11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:30

ARW Idealized Cases

Bill Skamarock

12:15

Lunch Break

 

01:15

WRF Physics (2)

Jimy Dudhia

02:45

Coffee Break

 

03:15

Objective Analysis: OBSGRID

Cindy Bruyere

04:00

Practice Session 4
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:15 and 6:15 pm

 

 

Friday - January 30, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am for Group 2 and 9:00 am for Group 1

08:00

Practice Session 4
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 2

09:30

Coffee

 

10:00

WRF Software

Dave Gill

11:15

Coffee Break

 

11:45

Domain Wizard

Jeff Smith

12:30

Lunch Break

 

01:30

Other Run-time options (digital filter, global, adaptive time step, etc.)

Wei Wang

02:15

WRF Utilities

Cindy Bruyere

02:45

New Features in version 3.1

Jimy Dudhia / Wei Wang

03:15

Open Discussion

 

04:00

Optional Practice Session (All)

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:15 pm

 

 

WRF Var Tutorial Agenda
 

Monday - February 2, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 7:15

 

08:00

Registration and Coffee

 

08:30

Welcome and ParticipantsŐ Introduction

Joe Klemp

09:00

WRF-Var Overview

Hans Huang

10:00

Coffee Break

 

10:30

Observation Pre-Processing

Yong-Run Guo

11:30

Lunch Break

 

12:30

Introduction to practice session 1

 

12:35

Practice Session 1 (observation pre-processing)

 

01:30

WRF-Var System

Michael Duda

02:30

Coffee Break

 

03:00

WRF-Var Setup, Run (basic namelists) and Diagnostics

Hui Shao

04:00

Introduction to practice session 1

 

04:05

Practice Session 2 (running WRF-Var)

 

05:30 End of Day  

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:45 pm

 

Tuesday - February 3, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 8:00 am

08:30

WRF-Var Background Error Estimations

Rizvi Syed

09:30

Coffee

 

10:00

Introduction to practice session 3

 

10:05

Practice Session 3 (BE and single ob tests)

11:30

Lunch Break

 

12:30

Radar Data

Qingnong Xiao

01:15

Introduction to practice session 4

 

01:20

Practice Session 4 (Radar Data)

 

02:30

Coffee Break

 

03:00

Hybrid

Meral Demirtas

03:45

Introduction to practice session 5

 

03:50

Practice Session 5 (Hybrid)

 

05:00 End of Day

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:45 and 5:15 pm

 

 

Wednesday - February 4, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am for Group 2 and 9:00 am for Group 1

08:30

WRF-Var Tools and Verification Package

Hui-Chuan Lin

08:50

Satellite Data

Tom Auligne

09:10

Ensemble

Chris Snyder

09:30

WRF 4D-Var

Xin Zhang

09:50

WRF-Var namelists (those not covered in Day 1)

Hui Shao

10:10

Coffee Break

 

10:40

Optional Practice Session (advanced practice)

 

12:00

End of WRF-Var Tutorial  

Bus leaves NCAR at 12:15 pm

 

 

MET Tutorial Agenda
 

Wednesday - February 4, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 12:30

 

12:30

Registration

 

01:00

MET Introduction ; Installation instructions and R ; Data types, formats, and preprocessing

 

02:15

Coffee Break

 

02:30

Verifying WRF with point and grid observations

 

03:30

Coffee Break

 

03:45

Practice Session (Verifying WRF with point and grid observations)

 

05:30 End of Day  

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:45 pm

 

Thursday - February 5, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am

08:00

Confidence Intervals ; Verifying WRF with objects

 

09:45

Coffee

 

10:00

Practice Session (Defining and verifying with objects)

12:00

Lunch Break

 

01:00

Verifying WRF on different spatial scales

 

02:00

Practice Session (Verifying with wavelets)

 

03:30

Coffee Break

 

03:45

Wrap Up

 

04:30 End of Day

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:45 pm