Monday – July 13, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 7:40

08:00 - 08:30

Registration and Coffee

 

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome and Participants’ Introduction

Joe Klemp

09:00 - 09:30

WRF Overview

Jimy Dudhia

09:30 - 10:30

WPS – Description of General Functions

Michael Duda

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

 

11:00 - 12:00

Real – Description of General Functions

Dave Gill

12:00 - 12:30

WRF and WPS: Compile

Laurie Carson

12:30 - 01:30

Lunch Break

 

01:30 - 02:15

WPS: Set up and Run

Michael Duda

02:15 - 02:45

Coffee Break

 

02:45 - 03:45

WRF: Set up and Run

Wei Wang

03:45 - 04:00

Practice Instructions

Cindy Bruyere

04:00 - 05:30

Practice Session 1

GROUP 1

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

 

Tuesday – July 14, 2009

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

08:00 - 09:30

Practice Session 1

GROUP 2

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee

 

09:30 - 10:30

Nesting in WRF

Dave Gill

10:30 - 11:00

Nesting Setup

Wei Wang

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30 - 12:30

NMM Dynamics and Numerics

Matthew Pyle

12:30 - 01:30

Lunch Break

 

01:30 - 03:00

ARW Dynamics and Numerics

Joe Klemp

03:00 - 03:30

Coffee Break

 

03:30 - 04:15

Post-processing Tools (1): NCL

Cindy Bruyere

04:15 - 06:15

Practice Session 2

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:30 and 6:30 pm

 

Wednesday – July 15, 2009

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

08:00 - 10:00

Practice Session 2

GROUP 2

09:30 - 10:00

Coffee

 

10:00 - 11:30

WRF Physics (1)

Jimy Dudhia

11:30 - 11:45

Coffee Break

 

11:45 - 12:30

ARW Idealized Cases

Wei Wang

 

 

 

 

 

 

12:30 - 01:45

Tutorial Get-Together

 

 

01:45 - 02:45

WPS Advanced Usage

Michael Duda

02:45 - 03:30

Coffee Break

 

03:00 - 03:30

ARW Nudging

Jimy Dudhia

03:30 - 04:00

Post-processing Tools (2): WPP

Matthew Pyle

04:00 - 06:00

Practice Session 3

GROUP 1

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

 

Thursday – July 16, 2009

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

08:00 - 10:00

Practice Session 3

GROUP 2

09:30 - 10:00

Coffee

 

10:00 - 11:00

WRF Physics (2)

Jimy Dudhia

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30 - 12:15

Post-processing Tools (3): Other

Cindy Bruyere

12:15 - 01:15

Lunch Break

 

01:15 - 02:45

WRF Registry and Examples

Dave Gill

02:45 - 03:15

Coffee Break

 

03:15 - 04:00

Objective Analysis: OBSGRID

Cindy Bruyere

04:00 - 06:00

Practice Session 4

GROUP 1

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

 

Friday – July 17, 2009

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

08:00 - 10:00

Practice Session 4

GROUP 2

09:30 - 10:00

Coffee

 

10:00 - 11:00

WRF Software

Dave Gill

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

 

11:30 - 12:15

Domain Wizard

Jeff Smith

12:15 - 01:15

Lunch Break

 

01:15 - 02:00

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

Wei Wang

02:00 - 02:30

WRF Utilities

Cindy Bruyere

02:30 - 03:00

Summary and Wrap-up

Wei Wang

Bus leaves NCAR at 3:30 pm


WRF Var Tutorial Agenda
 

Monday - July 20, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 7:40

 

08:00

Registration and Coffee

 

08:30

Welcome and Participants’ Introduction

Hans Huang

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 WRF-Var System Michael Duda
01:30 WRF-Var Setup, Run (basic namelists) and Diagnostics Hui Shao
02:30 Coffee Break  

03:00

Introduction to practice session

 

03:10

Practice Session (obsproc, running WRF- Var, single-ob tests)

 

05:30 End of Day  

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:45 pm

 

Tuesday - July 21, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 8:00 am

08:30

WRF-Var Background Error Estimations

Rizvi Syed

09:30 Radar Data Assimilation Qingnong Xiao

10:15

Coffee

 

10:45 Radiance Data Assimilation Tom Auligne /Zhiquan Liu
11:30 Lunch Break  
12:30 WRF 4D-Var Xin Zhang
01:10 Hybrid (WRF3D-VAR/ETKF ensemble) Data Assimilation System Meral Demirtas
02:00 Coffee Break  

02:30

Introduction to practice session

 

02:40

Practice Session (gen_be, radar, radiance, 4dvar, hybrid)

06:00 End of Day

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 6:15 pm

 

 

Wednesday - July 22, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 8:00 am

08:30

WRF-Var Tools and Verification Package

Rizvi Syed

09:00

Ensemble

Chris Snyder

09:20

GSI

Ming Hu

10:20

Coffee Break

 

10:50

Optional Practice Session (advanced practice)

 

12:00

End of WRF-Var Tutorial  

Bus leaves NCAR at 12:10 pm

 


12:00 Registration for WRF-Chem  
1:00 to 6:00 WRF-Chem Lectures & Practice
 
Thursday - July 23, 2009
8:00 to 6:00 WRF-Chem Lectures & Practice

WRF-Chem Tutorial Agenda
 

Wednesday - July 22, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 12:00

 

12:30

Registration for WRF-Chem

 

01:00

General overview of WRF/Chem

Georg Grell
1:30 Gas-phase Chemistry with emphasis on KPP Si-Wan Kim
2:00 Some aspects of Photolysis modules Sasha Madronich
2:30 Coffee Break  
3:15 Introduction to aerosol modeling with WRF/Chem Jan Kazil
3:45 The MEGAN module Tiffany Duhl
4:15 Anthropogenic and biogenic emissions pre-processing for WRF/Chem Stuart McKeen
4:45 Setting up and running WRF/Chem Steven Peckham
05:15 End of Day  

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:30 pm

 

Friday - July 24, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 8:00 am

08:30 Practice Session (WRF/Chem basics)  

12:30

Lunch Break

 

01:30

Practice Session (Verifying WRF with gridded observations ; Defining and verifying with objects)

 
02:30 Coffee Break  
02:45 Practice Session (Various aspects of the modeling system including more advanced topics such as: Preparation of special emissions data sets (RETRO/EDGAR, wildfires), modifying the chemistry registry, adding output variables, setting up special model runs.)  
06:00 End of Day

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 6:15 pm

 


MET Tutorial Agenda
 

Thursday - July 23, 2009

Bus for NCAR leaves Golden Buff at 12:00

 

12:30

Registration for MET

 

01:00

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

 

03:15

Coffee Break

 
03:30 Verifying WRF with point observations ; Verifying WRF with gridded observations ; Confidence Intervals  
05:00 End of Day  

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:15 pm

 

Friday - July 24, 2009

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:30 am

08:00 Practice Session (Verifying WRF with point observations)  

09:45

Coffee

 

10:15 Verifying WRF with object based methods ; Verifying WRF on different spatial scales ; Wrap Up and Suggestions  

12:00

Lunch Break

 

01:00

Practice Session (Verifying WRF with gridded observations ; Defining and verifying with objects)

 
02:30 Coffee Break  
02:45 Practice Session (Verifying with wavelets and neighborhood methods)  
04:30 End of Day

 

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:45 pm