WRF Basic Tutorial Agenda   

Monday – January 23, 2012
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 - 10:50 WPS – Description of General Functions Michael Duda
10:50 - 11:10 Coffee Break  
11:10 - 12:15 Real – Description of General Functions Dave Gill
12:15 - 01:15 Lunch Break  
01:15 - 01:55 WRF and WPS: Compile Laurie Carson
01:55 - 02:40 WPS: Set up and Run Michael Duda
02:40 - 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 – January 24, 2012
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 - 11:20 Coffee Break  
11:20 - 12:20 NMM Dynamics and Numerics Matthew Pyle
     
12:20 - 01:30 Tutorial Get-Together  
     
01:30 - 02:30 Nesting in WRF Dave Gill
02:30 - 02:45 Coffee Break  
02:45 - 03:15 Nesting Setup Wei Wang
03:15 - 04:00 Post-processing Tools (1): NCL Cindy Bruyere
04:00 - 06:00 Practice Session 2
GROUP 1

 

Wednesday – January 25, 2012
08:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 2
GROUP 2
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee  
10:00 - 11:40 WRF Physics (1) Jimy Dudhia
11:40 - 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 - 02:50 Coffee Break  
02:50 - 03:30 ARW Nudging Jimy Dudhia
03:30 - 04:00 Post-processing Tools (2): UPP Matthew Pyle
04:00 - 06:00 Practice Session 3
GROUP 1

 

Thursday – January 26, 2012
08:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 3
GROUP 2
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee  
10:00 - 11:10 WRF Physics (2) Jimy Dudhia
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee Break  
11:30 - 12:15 Post-processing Tools (3): Other Cindy Bruyere
12:15 - 01:15 Lunch Break  
01:15 - 02:55 WRF Registry and Examples Dave Gill
02:55 - 03:15 Coffee Break  
03:15 - 04:00 Objective Analysis: OBSGRID Cindy Bruyere
04:00 - 06:00 Practice Session 4
GROUP 1

 

Friday – January 27, 2012
08:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 4
GROUP 2
09:30 - 10:00 Coffee  
10:00 - 11:00 WRF Software Dave Gill
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break  
11:20 - 11:50 WRF Domain Wizard and WRF Portal Jeff Smith
11:50 - 12:50 Lunch Break  
12:50 - 01:40 Other Run-time options (digital filter, global, adaptive time step, etc.) Wei Wang
01:40 - 02:10 WRF Utilities Cindy Bruyere
02:10 - 02:40 Introduction to WRF-Fire Janice Coen
02:40 - 03:00 Coffee Break  
03:00 - 03:30 Introduction to WRF-Chem Georg Grell
03:30 - 04:00 Introduction to WRFDA Tom Auligne
04:00 - 04:20 New in WRF version 3.4 Jimy Dudhia
04:20 - 04:40 Summary and Wrap-up Wei Wang