1. Ming Hu Developmental Testbed Center Introduction to Practice Session 2011 GSI Community Tutorial June 29-July 1, 2011, Boulder, CO

2. Practice sessions: List of content http://www.dtcenter.org/com-GSI/users/tutorial/online_tutorial/Practical_2011/ Introduction Basic Practical Cases: Wednesday and Thursday 3:30-5:30 pm 6 cases Advanced Practical Session: Friday 9:00 am – 2:30 pm A: Repeat basic practice with new data (6 cases) B: cycling C: Single Observation Test with Hybrid GSI Building GSI from Scratch

3. Introduction Basic application skills about computers in the COMET classroom Setup GSI and WRF system on your own local machine Precompiled GSI Precompiled WRF-ARW Precompiled WRF-NMM Get data for practice Where is the data What kind of data available Welcome to 2011 GSI Tutorial Practical Session Guide! The DTC community GSI analysis system V3 and WRFV3.3 have been pre-compiled on the tutorial machines. Please copy the executables into your working directory and use them for the tutorial to ensure that you get the most from these practical sessions. If you want to experiment compiling GSI, Please check here for directions. These tutorial exercises are designed to be run on the Linux workstations provided in COMET classroom. The source code and data files needed for these exercises are provided, and available on an external directory. Using the COMET Classroom machines Setting up the GSI system Case data summary and download

4. Basic Practical Cases 0). BUFR/PrepBUFR tools [practice] The run the following practical case, the key is to modify the sample run script. Here we will first make some changes used by all the basic cases: [prepare] 1). Single Observation Tests: * [a]. ARW background with global BE * [b]. ARW background with NAM BE * [c]. NMM background with global BE * [d]. NMM background with NAM BE 2). Test with conventional data (prepbufr): * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 3). Test with conventional and satellite radiance data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 4). Test with conventional and gpsro data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 5). Test with conventional data and radar radial wind: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background Introduction Background and Data Setting up the Run Script Line to line instruction Sample script Running the Script Results Standard out (stdout) Fit files convergence Visualizing the Analysis

5. Basic Practical Cases Introduction Background and Data Setting up the Run Script Line to line instruction Sample script Running the Script Results Standard out (stdout) Fit files convergence Visualizing the Analysis GSI fundamentals (1): Setup and Compilation (2): Run and Namelist (3): Diagnostics Community GSI tools (1): PrepBUFR/BUFR: Basic tools, NCEP data tank, and Obsproc GSI fundamentals (4): Applications Basic Practical Cases 0). BUFR/PrepBUFR tools 1). Single Observation Tests 2). Test with conventional data (prepbufr) 3). Test with conventional and satellite radiance data 4). Test with conventional and gpsro data 5). Test with conventional data and radar radial wind

6. Advanced Practical Session A: Repeat basic practice with new data A0). BUFR/PrepBUFR tools [practice] Please repeat the basic case 1 to 5 using the new data at 00Z June 05, 2011. Users can get the data following the instruction at: Case data summary and download Note: the BUFR/PrepBUFR files were created on IBM machine, which are Big Endian files. To use these files on Linux machine, files need to be converted to Little Endian files. A1). Single Observation Tests: * [a]. ARW background with global BE * [b]. ARW background with NAM BE * [c]. NMM background with global BE * [d]. NMM background with NAM BE Test with encoded PrepBUFR file with Single Observation: * [e]. ARW background with global BE * [f]. NMM background with global BE A2). Test with conventional data (prepbufr): * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A3). Test with conventional and satellite radiance data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A4). Test with conventional and gpsro data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A5). Test with conventional data and radar radial wind: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background Introduction Setting up the Run Script No instruction! Sample script Running the Script Results stdout, Fit file fort.220 Visualizing the Analysis

7. Advanced Practical Session A and Basic Practical Cases Repeat basic practice with new data A0). BUFR/PrepBUFR tools [practice] A1). Single Observation Tests: * [a]. ARW background with global BE * [b]. ARW background with NAM BE * [c]. NMM background with global BE * [d]. NMM background with NAM BE Test with encoded PrepBUFR file with Single Observation: * [e]. ARW background with global BE * [f]. NMM background with global BE A2). Test with conventional data (prepbufr): * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A3). Test with conventional and satellite radiance data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A4). Test with conventional and gpsro data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background A5). Test with conventional data and radar radial wind: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background Basic Practical Cases 0). BUFR/PrepBUFR tools [practice] 1). Single Observation Tests: * [a]. ARW background with global BE * [b]. ARW background with NAM BE * [c]. NMM background with global BE * [d]. NMM background with NAM BE 2). Test with conventional data (prepbufr): * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 3). Test with conventional and satellite radiance data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 4). Test with conventional and gpsro data: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background 5). Test with conventional data and radar radial wind: * [a]. ARW background * [b]. NMM background

8. Advanced Practical Session B Advanced Practical Session B: cycling This exercise is to illustrate the basic structure and flow of a cycling data assimilation system. We will use the data on June 5, 2011 to manually run data assimilation cycles from 00z to 12z with 6 hour interval on June 5. The June 5, 2011 data have been used for the Advanced Practical session A and users should have downloaded the data after play with the Advanced Practical cases. If not, please check Case data summary and download. The flow chart of this practical cycling data assimilation system can be found at here. B1). GSI and ARW Cycling exercise: * [00z]. cycle 2011060500 * [06z]. cycle 2011060506 * [12z]. cycle 2011060512 B2). GSI and NMM Cycling exercise: * [00z]. cycle 2011060500 * [06z]. cycle 2011060506 * [12z]. cycle 2011060512 Introduction Setting up the GSI Run Script No instructions Sample script Running the GSI run Script and checking the results Same as other cases Setting up ARW run environment With detailed instructions Running the ARW and checking the forecast results

9. Advanced Practical Session C A single observation test Perturbations have been provided

10. Suggestions and notes Basic cases: try to go through Pick ARW or NMM, or mix Advanced cases: optional practices A: Pick up cases based on needs B: Has to try A2 first (A2a-->B1, A2b-->B2) All cases will be uploaded on-line after tutorial 3-4 instructors in classroom to help A sheet lists important information (available in classroom)

11. Questions? GSI Tutorial Survey: https://survey.ucar.edu/s?s=7255