WRF-Var Tutorial outline
Monday - February 1, 2010
08:00-08:30 Registration for WRF-Var  
08:30-09:00 Welcome and Participants' Introduction Joe Klemp
09:00-10:00 WRFDA Overview Hans Huang
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break  
10:30-11:30 Observation Pre-Processing Yong-Run Guo
11:30-12:30 Lunch  
12:30-13:15 WRF-Var System Michael Duda
13:15-14:14 WRF-Var Setup, Run (basic namelists) and Diagnostics Hui-Chuan Lin
14:15-14:30 Introduction to practice sessions  
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00-17:30 Practice Session (obsproc, running WRF-Var, single-ob tests)  
Tuesday - February 2, 2010
08:00-09:00 WRF-Var Background Error Estimations Syed Rizvi
09:00-09:40 radar data assimilation Jenny Sun
09:40-10:10 Coffee Break  
10:10-11:10 radiance data assimilation Zhiquan Liu
10:10-11:40 4dvar Xin Zhang
11:40-12:40 Lunch  
12:40-13:20 Hybrid (WRF3D-VAR/ETKF ensemble) Data Assimilation System Zhiquan Liu
13:20-13:50 WRF-Var Tools and Verification Package Syed Rizvi
13:50-14:30 Observation Sensitivity Tom Auligne
14:30-15:00 Coffee Break  
15:00-18:00 Practice Session (gen_be, radar, radiance, 4dvar, hybrid)  
Wednesday - February 3, 2010
09:00 to 12:00 (optional) Advanced practice session, wrap-up discussion