MPAS-Atmosphere and MPAS-JEDI Tutorials
Agenda
MPAS-A Tutorial Agenda
Monday, 30 September
| 9:00 | – | 9:20 | Registration |
| 9:20 | – | 9:30 | Opening Remarks |
| 9:30 | – | 9:50 (20 mins) | MPAS Overview |
| 9:50 | – | 10:10 (20 mins) | Downloading and compiling MPAS-Atmosphere |
| 10:10 | – | 11:05 (55 mins) | Running MPAS, part 1: Creating ICs and running a basic global simulation |
| 11:05 | – | 11:20 (15 mins) | Break |
| 11:20 | – | 11:30 (10 mins) | Introduction to the practical exercises |
| 11:30 | – | 12:15 (45 mins) | Practical session |
| 12:15 | – | 13:30 (75 mins) | Lunch |
| 13:30 | – | 14:00 (30 mins) | Running MPAS, part 2: Variable-resolution, I/O streams, restarts, and other options |
| 14:00 | – | 14:45 (45 mins) | Practical session |
| 14:45 | – | 15:00 (15 mins) | Break |
| 15:00 | – | 16:00 (60 mins) | Practical session |
Tuesday, 1 October
| 9:00 | – | 9:45 (45 mins) | Dynamics and dynamics configuration |
| 9:45 | – | 10:30 (45 mins) | Physics and physics configuration |
| 10:30 | – | 10:45 (15 mins) | Break |
| 10:45 | – | 11:15 (30 mins) | An overview of the structure of MPAS meshes |
| 11:15 | – | 11:45 (30 mins) | Running MPAS, part 3: Preparing limited-area meshes and LBCs |
| 11:45 | – | 12:15 (30 mins) | Post-processing and visualizing MPAS-Atmosphere output |
| 12:15 | – | 13:30 (75 mins) | Lunch |
| 13:30 | – | 14:45 (75 mins) | Practical session |
| 14:45 | – | 15:00 (15 mins) | Break |
| 15:00 | – | 16:00 (60 mins) | Practical session |
Wednesday, 2 October
| 9:00 | – | 9:20 (20 mins) | Unique aspects of MPAS code: Registry, pools, and logging |
| 9:20 | – | 9:45 (25 mins) | Adding passive tracers to MPAS-Atmosphere simulations |
| 9:45 | – | 10:10 (25 mins) | Computing new diagnostic fields in MPAS-Atmosphere simulations |
| 10:10 | – | 10:25 (15 mins) | Break |
| 10:25 | – | 11:05 (40 mins) | Spatial discretization, filters and transport |
| 11:05 | – | 11:35 (30 mins) | MPAS mesh generation |
| 11:35 | – | 12:00 (25 mins) | New MPAS capabilities under development, and concluding remarks |
| 12:00 | – | 13:30 (90 mins) | Lunch |
| 13:30 | – | 14:45 (75 mins) | Practical session |
| 14:45 | – | 15:00 (15 mins) | Break |
| 15:00 | – | 16:00 (60 mins) | Practical session |
MPAS-JEDI Tutorial Agenda
Thursday, 3 October 2024
| 8:30 | – | 9:00 (30 mins) | Registration | |
| 9:00 | – | 9:05 (5 mins) | Welcome and Agenda | Jake Liu |
| 9:05 | – | 09:50 (45 mins) | Fundamentals of Data Assimilation (slides) | Chris Snyder |
| 9:50 | – | 10:20 (30 mins) | JEDI introduction and code structure (slides) | Nate Crossette |
| 10:20 | – | 10:40 (20 mins) | Group Photo and Break | |
| 10:40 | – | 11:00 (20 mins) | MPAS-JEDI Overview & Intro to practices (slides) | Jake Liu |
| 11:00 | – | 11:30 (30 mins) | Observations (1): UFO, IODA, Obs Converters (slides) | Fabio Diniz |
| 11:30 | – | 12:30 (60 mins) | Practical session (1): code build/ctest, hofx | |
| 12:30 | – | 13:30 (60 mins) | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | – | 14:05 (35 mins) | Algorithms (1): 3D/4DEnVar (slides) | Jake Liu |
| 14:05 | – | 14:45 (40 mins) | Observations (2): Assimilate "conventional" obs (slides) | Byoung-Joo Jung |
| 14:45 | – | 15:00 (15 mins) | Break | |
| 15:00 | – | 17:00 (120 mins) | Practical session (2): localization, 3D/4DEnVar with conventional obs |
Friday, 4 October 2024
| 9:00 | – | 9:45 (45 mins) | Algorithms (2): 3DVar, Static B, and hybrid-EnVar (slides) | Byoung-Joo Jung |
| 9:45 | – | 10:30 (45 mins) | Observations (3): Satellite radiance DA (slides) | Jake Liu |
| 10:30 | – | 10:45 (15 mins) | Break | |
| 10:45 | – | 11:20 (35 mins) | Algorithms (3): EDA and LETKF (slides) | Chris Snyder |
| 11:20 | – | 12:30 (70 mins) | Practical session (3): 3DVar/Hybrid with satellite radiance | |
| 12:30 | – | 13:30 (60 mins) | Lunch | |
| 13:30 | – | 14:15 (45 mins) | Cycling DA and Workflow/Diagnostic (slides) | Jake Liu |
| 14:15 | – | 14:30 (15 mins) | Regional MPAS-JEDI (slides) | Jake Liu |
| 14:30 | – | 14:50 (20 mins) | spack-stack: building jedi bundles on your own machine (slides) | Nate Crossette, Fabio Diniz |
| 14:50 | – | 15:05 (15 mins) | Break | |
| 15:05 | – | 17:00 (115 mins) | Practical session (4): EDA/LETKF, Plot OMB/OMA, Regional |