WRFDA Tutorial Agenda
Tuesday - August 3, 2010
12:00-13:00 Registration for WRFDA  
13:00-13:30 Welcome and Participants' Introduction Joe Klemp
13:30-14:30 WRFDA Overview Tom Auligne
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00-16:00 Observation Pre-Processing Yong-Run Guo
16:00-16:10 Introduction to practice sessions  
16:10-16:40 Coffee Break  
16:40-17:30 Practice Session (obsproc)  
Wednesday - August 4, 2010
08:00-08:45 WRFDA System Xin Zhang
08:45-09:45 WRFDA-3DVAR Setup, Run (basic namelists) and Diagnostics Hui-Chuan Lin
09:45-10:15 Coffee Break  
10:15-11:15 WRFDA Background Error Estimations Syed Rizvi
11:15-12:30 Practice Session (running 3DVar, gen_be, single-ob tests)  
12:30-13:30 Lunch  
13:30-14:20 radar data assimilation Jenny Sun
14:20-15:20 radiance data assimilation Zhiquan Liu
15:20-15:50 Coffee Break  
15:50-16:30 WRFDA-4DVar Xin Zhang
16:30-17:30 Practice Session (radar, radiance, 4dvar)  
Thursday - August 5, 2010
08:00-08:40 Hybrid (WRF3D-VAR/ETKF ensemble) Data Assimilation System Zhiquan Liu
08:40-09:10 WRFDA Tools and Verification Package Syed Rizvi
09:10-09:50 Observation Sensitivity Tom Auligne
09:50-10:10 wrap-up discussion Hans Huang
10:10-10:40 Coffee Break  
10:40-12:00 Practice Session (hybrid, sensitivity)  
12:00-13:00 lunch  
13:00-15:00 (optional) Advanced practice session (WRF/WRFDA cycling, FGAT, nesting, gen_be on user-defined domains) Overlap with MET