WRF Basic Tutorial Agenda   
-- Draft - Subject to Change --

Monday – January 31, 2011
08:00 - 08:30 Registration and Coffee  
08:30 - 09:00 Welcome and Participants’ Introduction Joe Klemp
09:00 - 09:45 WRF Overview Jimy Dudhia
09:45 - 10:45 WPS – Description of General Functions Michael Duda
10:45 - 11:15 Coffee Break  
11:15 - 12:15 Real – Description of General Functions Dave Gill
12:15 - 01:15 Lunch Break  
01:15 - 01:45 WRF and WPS: Compile Laurie Carson
01:45 - 02:30 WPS: Set up and Run Michael Duda
02:30 - 03:00 Coffee Break  
03:00 - 04:00 WRF: Set up and Run Wei Wang
04:00 - 04:15 Practice Instructions Cindy Bruyere
04:15 - 05:45 Practice Session 1
GROUP 1

 

Tuesday – February 1, 2011
08:00 - 09:30 Practice Session 1
GROUP 2
09:00 - 09:30 Coffee  
09:30 - 11:00 ARW Dynamics and Numerics Bill Skamarock
11:00 - 11:30 Coffee Break  
11:30 - 12:30 NMM Dynamics and Numerics Matthew Pyle
     
12:30 - 01:45 Tutorial Get-Together  
     
01:45 - 02:45 Nesting in WRF Dave Gill
02:45 - 03:00 Coffee Break  
03:00 - 03:30 Nesting Setup Wei Wang
03:30 - 04:15 Post-processing Tools (1): NCL Cindy Bruyere
04:15 - 06:15 Practice Session 2
GROUP 1

 

Wednesday – February 2, 2011
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 - 12:00 Coffee Break  
12:00 - 12:30 ARW Idealized Cases Bill Skamarock
12:30 - 01:30 Lunch Break
01:30 - 02:30 WPS Advanced Usage Michael Duda
02:30 - 03:00 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

 

Thursday – February 3, 2011
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

 

Friday – February 4, 2011
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 - 12:00 WRF Domain Wizard and WRF Portal Jeff Smith
12:00 - 01:00 Lunch Break  
01:00 - 01:45 Other Run-time options (digital filter, global, adaptive time step, etc.) Wei Wang
01:45 - 02:15 WRF Utilities Cindy Bruyere
02:15 - 02:45 Introduction to WRF-Fire Janice Coen
02:45 - 03:15 Coffee Break  
03:15 - 03:45 Introduction to WRF-Chem Georg Grell
03:45 - 04:15 Introduction to WRFDA Hans Huang
04:15 - 04:35 New features in WRF version 3.3 Jimy Dudhia
04:35 - 05:00 Summary and Wrap-up Wei Wang