Monday - July 14, 2008

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:15

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 - 01:00

Lunch Break

01:00 - 01:30

WRF and WPS: Compile

Jamie Wolff

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
(WPS, WRF)

GROUP 1

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

Tuesday - July 15, 2008, 2008

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
(WPS, WRF)

GROUP 2

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee

09:30 - 11:00

ARW Dynamics and Numerics

Joe Klemp

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:30

NMM Dynamics and Numerics

Matthew Pyle

12:30 - 01:30

Lunch Break

01:30 - 02:30

Nesting in WRF

Dave Gill

02:30 - 03:00

Nesting Setup

Wei Wang

03:00 - 03:30

Coffee Break

03:30 - 04:00

Post-processing Tools (1): NCL

Cindy Bruyere

04:00 - 04:30

Post-processing Tools (2): WRFpost

Matthew Pyle

04:30 - 06:00

Practice Session 2
(WPS, WRF, graphics)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 4:45 and 6:15 pm

Wednesday - July 16, 2008

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

08:00 - 09:30

Practice Session 2
(WPS, WRF, graphics)

GROUP 2

09:00 - 09:30

Coffee

09:30 - 10:30

WRF Registry and Examples

Dave Gill

10:30 - 11:00

Coffee Break

11:00 - 11:30

ARW Nudging

Jimy Dudhia

11:30 - 12:00

ARW Idealized Cases

Wei Wang

12:00 - 01:15

Tutorial Get-Together

01:15 - 02:15

MET (1)

MET team

02:15 - 02:30

Coffee Break

02:30 - 03:30

MET (2)

MET team

03:30 - 04:00

Post-processing Tools (3): RIP

Cindy Bruyere

04:00 - 06:00

Practice Session 3
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 1

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

Thursday - July 17, 2008

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
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 2

09:30 - 10:00

Coffee

10:00 - 11:00

WRF Physics (1)

Jimy Dudhia

11:00 - 11:15

Coffee Break

11:15 - 12:15

WPS Advanced Usage

Michael Duda

12:15 - 01:15

Lunch Break

01:15 - 02:45

WRF Physics (2)

Jimy Dudhia

02:45 - 03:00

Coffee Break

03:00 - 03:30

Post-processing Tools (4): ARWpost

Cindy Bruyere

03:30 - 04:00

Domain Wizard

Jeff Smith

04:00 - 06:00

Practice Session 4
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

GROUP 1

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

Friday - July 18, 2008

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
(WPS, WRF, graphics, MET)

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 Utilities

Cindy Bruyere

12:00 - 01:00

Lunch Break

01:00 - 01:30

Objective Analysis: OBSGRID

Cindy Bruyere

01:30 - 02:00

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

Wei Wang

02:00 - 02:30

Open Discussion

02:30 - 05:00

Optional Practice Session (All)

Bus leaves NCAR at 2:45 and 5:00 pm

Monday – July 21, 2008

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:15

08:00 - 08:30

Registration and Coffee

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome and Participants' Introduction

Joe Klemp

09:00 - 09:45

WRF-Var Overview

Hans Huang

09:45 - 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15

Observation Pre-processing and Introduction to "Practice Session 1"

Yongrun Guo

11:15 - 12:30

Practice Session 1
(Observation pre-processing)

GROUP 1

12:30 - 13:45

Practice Session 1
(Observation pre-processing)

GROUP 2

13:45 - 14:45

WRF-Var System

Xin Zhang

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 16:15

WRF-Var namelists and Introduction to "Practice Session 2"

Hui Shao

16:15 - 17:30

Practice Session 2
(Start WRF-Var)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 16:30 and 17:45

Tuesday – July 22, 2008

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 8:00 am for Group 2 and 9:30 am for Group 1

08:30 - 09:45

Practice Session 2
(Start WRF-Var)

GROUP 2

09:45 - 10:15

Coffee Break

10:15 - 11:15

BE, gen_be, Single ob experiments and Introduction to "Practice Session 3"

Syed Rizvi

11:15 - 12:30

Practice Session 3
(BE and Single Obs)

GROUP 1

12:30 - 13:45

Practice Session 3
(BE and Single Obs)

GROUP 2

13:45 - 14:45

Radar Data

Qingnong Xiao

14:45 - 15:15

Coffee Break

15:15 - 15:40

WRF-Var Tools and WRF-Var Verification Package

Hui-Chuan Lin

15:40 - 16:05

Satellite Data

Thomas Auligne

16:05 - 16:30

Ensemble and Hybrid

Yongsheng Chen

16:30 - 16:55

WRF 4D-Var

Xin Zhang

16:55 - 17:20

Open Discussion

Bus leaves NCAR at 17:30

Wednesday - July 23, 2008

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:15

08:00 - 08:30

Registration and Coffee

08:30 - 09:00

Welcome and Overview of WRF-Chem

G. Grell

09:00 - 09:30

Gas-phase Chemistry with Emphasis on KPP

S.W. Kim

09:30 - 10:00

Some aspects of Photolysis Modules

S. Madronich

10:00 - 10:30

Coffee Break

10:30 - 11:00

Modal and Sectional Aerosol Modules

R. Zaveri

11:00 - 11:30

Aerosol direct and indirect forcing

J. Fast

11:30 - 12:00

MEGAN biogenic emissions module

C. Wiedinmyer

12:00 - 13:00

Lunch Break

13:00 - 17:00

Practice Session
(Emissions preparation, namelist options, running the model, visualization)

GROUP 1

Bus leaves NCAR at 5:15 pm for Group 1 (Group 2 participants, please use regular NCAR shuttle)

Thursday - July 24, 2008

Bus leaves Golden Buff at 7:45 am for Group 2

08:30 - 12:30

Practice Session
(Emissions preparation, namelist options, running the model, visualization)

GROUP 2

12:30 - 13:30

Lunch Break

13:30 - 18:00

Practice Session (voluntary participation)

(Advanced aspects of the modeling system: Preparation of special emissions data sets (MEGAN, RETRO/EDGAR, wildfires); modifying the chemistry registry; adding output variables; setting up special model runs.)

Combined GROUP 1 & GROUP 2

ALL participants, please use regular NCAR shuttle for rest of the day