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Draft - WRF Basic Tutorial Agenda   (subject to change)
Monday – July 16, 2012
8:00 - 8:30 Registration and Coffee  
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Participants’ Introduction Joe Klemp
9:00 - 9:50 WRF Overview Jimy Dudhia
9:50 - 11:05 WPS – Description of General Functions Michael Duda
11:05 - 11:25 Coffee Break
11:25 - 12:30 Real – Description of General Functions Dave Gill
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Break
13:30 - 14:10 WRF and WPS: Compile Laurie Carson
14:10 - 14:55 WPS: Set up and Run Michael Duda
14:55 - 15:15 Coffee Break
15:15 - 16:15 WRF: Set up and Run Wei Wang
16:15 - 16:30 Practice Instructions Cindy Bruyere
16:30 - 18:00 Practice Session 1 GROUP PM
         
Tuesday – July 17, 2012
8:00 - 9:30 Practice Session 1 GROUP AM
9:00 - 9:30 Coffee
9:30 - 11:00 ARW Dynamics and Numerics Bill Skamarock
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 11:50 ARW Idealized Cases Bill Skamarock
11:50 - 13:00 Tutorial Get-Together
13:00 - 14:15 Nesting in WRF Dave Gill
14:15 - 14:35 Coffee Break
14:35 - 15:15 Nesting Setup Wei Wang
15:15 - 16:00 Post-processing Tools (1): NCL Cindy Bruyere
16:00 - 18:00 Practice Session 2 GROUP PM
         
Wednesday – July 18, 2012
8:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 2 GROUP AM
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 WRF Physics (1) Jimy Dudhia
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:10 WRF Physics (1)
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch Break
13:10 - 14:15 WPS Advanced Usage Michael Duda
14:15 - 14:35 Coffee Break
14:35 - 15:15 ARW Nudging Jimy Dudhia
15:15 - 16:00 Objective Analysis: OBSGRID Cindy Bruyere
16:00 - 18:00 Practice Session 3 GROUP PM
         
Thursday – July 19, 2012
8:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 3 GROUP AM
9:30 - 10:00 Coffee
10:00 - 11:00 WRF Registry and Examples Dave Gill
11:00 - 11:20 Coffee Break
11:20 - 12:10 WRF Registry and Examples Dave Gill
12:10 - 13:10 Lunch Break
13:10 - 14:10 WRF Physics (2) Jimy Dudhia
14:10 - 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:30 Post-processing Tools (3): Other Cindy Bruyere
15:30 - 17:30 Practice Session 4 GROUP PM
         
Friday – July 20, 2012
8:00 - 10:00 Practice Session 4 GROUP AM
9:30 - 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 - 13:40 Other Run-time options (digital filter, global, adaptive time step, etc.) Wei Wang
13:40 - 14:10 WRF Utilities Cindy Bruyere
14:10 - 14:30 Coffee Break
14:30 - 15:00 Introduction to WRF-Fire Janice Coen
15:00 - 15:30 Introduction to WRFDA Tom Auligne
15:30 - 16:00 Introduction to WRF-Chem Georg Grell
16:00 - 16:30 Summary and Wrap-up Wei Wang
         
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Tentative WRFDA Tutorial Agenda
Monday - July 23, 2012
08:00-08:30 Registration for WRFDA  
08:30-09:00 Welcome and Participants' Introduction Hans Huang
09:00-10:00 Overview of WRF Data Assimilation Tom Auligne
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break  
10:20-11:20 Observation Pre-Processing Yong-Run Guo/Ruifang Li
11:20-11:30 Introduction to practice sessions  
11:30-12:30 Practice Session (obsproc)  
12:30-13:30 lunch  
13:30-14:20 WRFDA System Michael Kavulich
14:20-15:20 WRFDA-3DVAR Setup, Run (basic namelists) and Diagnostics Craig Schwartz
15:20-15:40 Coffee Break  
15:40-16:40 WRFDA Background Error Estimations Syed Rizvi
16:40-18:00 Practice Session (running 3DVar, gen_be, single-ob tests)  
Tuesday - July 24, 2012
09:00-10:00 Radiance data assimilation Zhiquan Liu
10:00-10:20 Coffee Break  
10:20-11:20 WRFDA-4DVar Xin Zhang
11:20-12:30 Practice Session (radiance, 4dvar)  
12:30-13:30 lunch  
13:30-14:20 Hybrid (WRF-3DVAR/ensemble) Data Assimilation System Zhiquan Liu
14:20-15:10 Forecast Sensitivity to Observations and Observation Impact Tom Auligne
15:10-15:30 Coffee Break  
15:30-16:10 WRFDA Tools and Verification Package Syed Rizvi
16:10-16:30 wrap-up discussion Hans Huang
16:30-17:30 Practice Session (hybrid, sensitivity)  
Wednesday - July 25, 2012
09:00-11:00 (optional) Advanced practice session (WRF/WRFDA cycling, FGAT, nesting, gen_be on user-defined domains)  
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WRF-Chem Tutorial agenda
Wednesday - July 25, 2012
12:30 Registration for WRF-Chem  
13:00 to 18:00 WRF-Chem Lectures & Practice
13:00 to 13:30 Welcoming remarks and general overview to WRF/Chem
13:30 to 14:00 Introduction to Photolysis
14:00 to 14:30 MEGAN and biogenic emissions in WRF/Chem
14:30 to 15:00 Chemical Mechanisms and KPP
15:00 to 15:30 Break
15:30 to 16:00 Aerosols in WRF/Chem
16:00 to 16:45 Aerosol-radiation-microphysics interactions
16:45 to 17:30 Set-up and running WRF-Chem
17:30 to 18:00 Questions and Answers
 
Thursday - July 26, 2012
8:00 to 17:00 WRF-Chem Lectures & Practice
8:00 to 9:00 Introduction to WRF-Chem tutorial exercises
9:00 to 12:00 Practical exercises (self-paced)
12:00 to 13:00 Lunch break
13:00 to 17:00 Continue practical exercises (self-paced)
 
Friday - July 27, 2012
8:00 to 12:00 WRF-Chem Lectures & Practice
8:00 to 12:00 Continue practical exercises (self-paced)
12:00 End of tutorial
     
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