BMB-UCAR Project

Training, Research and Operational Implementation of WRF 3D-Var

March 2005 - March 2008

Statement of Work

Tasks:
Task 1: System design and initial tests.
Task 2: Training of BMB staff WRF 3DVAR at NCAR.
Task 3: Implementation of the WRF3DVAR system on BMB's computing environment.
Task 4: Testing and improving the computational performance of WRF3DVAR system.
Task 5: Evaluating and enchancing the meteorological performance of the WRF3DVAR system.
Task 6: Monitoring of pre-operational runs and case studies.
Task 7: Monitoring of operational use of WRF3DVAR at BMB, and additional case studies.

Schedule (Start: 18 March 2005)
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Deliverables:

D11. System design.
D12. WRF model and 3DVAR codes, test cases and documentation:
(1) wrfsi program: wrfsi code ,
(2) wrf model program: wrf code ,
(3) 3DVAR obs preprocessor program: 3DVAR_OBSPROC code
(4) WRF 3D-Var program: wrfvar code .
     NMC_Stage0_for_WRF: ducument.

    A simplified gen_be_Stage0 code for both MM5 and WRF regional models has developed
    and intensively tested in PC Linux by Yong-Run Guo (NCAR), Shui-Yong Fan (BMB), and
    Hui-Chuan Lin (CWB). The new code can be downloaded from gen_be_Stage0.

(5) update BC program: WRF_BC code ,
(6) terrestrial data for wrfsi: Terrestrial Data.
D13. A BMB local data set.
         Case_710_data_detail
D21. Modified code.
D22. System design (version 2).
         Single_OBS_test
D23. Report on assimilating BMB local data.
D31. A WRF based data assimilation system for BMB.
D32. Report on AWS data impact.
D33. Report on GPS-PW data impact.
D41. Report on computational performance.
D51. Report on implementation of WRF data assimilation system at BMB.
D61. Report on pre-operational trials.
D71. Report on the operational performance.
D72. Report on case studies
D73. A WRF based data assimilation system which could be used to support the BMB meteorological service during Beijing 2008 Olympics.

Meeting notes (progress reports):

(1) July 1, 2005
(2) July 7, 2005
(3) July 26, 2005
(4) August 9, 2005
(5) August 19, 2005
(6) September 1, 2005
(7) September 16, 2005
(8) September 23, 2005
(9) October 12, 2005
(10) October 26, 2005
 (11) November 15, 2005 (doc file)
(12) November 29, 2005 (doc file)
(13) December 5, 2005  (doc file)
(14) December 19, 2005 (doc file)
(15) January 3, 2006 (doc file)




Contact: guo@ucar.edu
Last Modified: 17 November 2005