Experiment/To-Do list for RR Curtis Alexander 20 July 2010 RR-primary ----------- Done) WRF v3.2 Done) GSI-trunk Done) Unipost 4) Rotated lat/lon RR-devel ----------- Done) Switch to 30 min tten Done) WRF v3.2 Done) GSI-trunk Done) Unipost 4) Rotated lat/lon Done) No 6th order diffusion/monotonic moisture advection 6) Radial velocity assimilation (Yi Yang) RR-retro ----------- Done) Test 3+ day cycling crash fix (establish control run) Done) Namelist damping option 3 Done) Dezso GSI surface modification Done) 3-hr cycling Done) Shallow convection 1) MYNN PBL scheme 2) 1/3 tten 3) Cloud analysis 4) Reflectivity assimilation adjustment RR-retro (May 2010, RR testing) ----------- 0)RRret_May8LC: Lambert Conformal run (full hourly cycling and partial cycling) 1)RRret_May8v1: old Rotated Lat/lon run (full hourly cycling and partial cycling) 2)RRret_May8v2: Rotated lat/lon run with the corrections to WRF for the RLL grid (full hourly cycling and partial cycling) 3)RRret_May8v3: RRret_May8v2 + new PBL scheme 4)RRret_May8v4: RRret_May8v3 + re-balance fix 5)RRret_May8v5: RRret_May8v4 + the newly added vertical interpolation in GSI 6)RRret_May8v6: RRret_May8v4 + GFS berror #1 7)RRret_May8v7: RRret_May8v6 + diff_savehydmeteors=0 8)RRret_May8v8: RRret_May8v7 + GFS berror #2, diff_savehydmeteors=0 (in the partical cycle, in the first one and a half days,used GFS berror #1) 9)RRret_May8v9: RRret_May8v4 + new Nam berror,diff_savehydmeteors=1;old verification RRret_May8v9_new: RRret_May8v4 + new Nam berror,diff_savehydmeteors=1;new verification fixes 10)RRret_May8v10: RRret_May8v9 + new error table, new verification fixes 11)RRret_May8v11: RRret_May8v7 + saturation definition transition changed in GSI, new verification fixes 12)RRret_May8v12: RRret_May8v11 + saturation definition transition NOT changed in GSI, new verification fixes 13)RRret_May8v13: new versions of RR (GSI: gsi.exe_r295,for WRF: wrf.exe_r302,rebalancing after DFI) + diff_savehydmeteors=1 (02/04/2011) 14)RRret_May8v14: the same as v13 except for diff_savehydmeteors=0 (but wrf crashed on 0817,0818,0819,0820 after at least 1-h fcst) (02/09/2011) 15)RRret_May8v15: the same as v14 except for updating QV to saturation after DFI using the pre-DEF RH>=100% in WRF (02/14/2011) 16)RRret_May8v16: some changes in dfi.F, using rsif.F (saturation w.r.t ice) instead of rslf.F and other changes by Stan (02/18/2011) qs = rsif(pres, temp) IF(grid%dfi_moist(i,k,j,P_Qs) .GT. 1.e-5 .and. temp.lt.273. ) THEN grid%moist (i,k,j,P_QV) = MAX(grid%moist(i,k,j,p_qv),grid%dfi_rh(i,k,j)*QS) ENDIF 17)RRret_May8v17: using wrf.exe_r318, diff_savehydmeteors=2(03/11/2011) 18)RRret_May8v18: the same as v17 except for using dfi_cutoff_seconds = 1440 instead of 3600 (03/14/2011) 19)RRret_May8v19: wrf.exe_r330,dif_savehydmeteors=1,non_dydrostatic=.false. (04/04/2011) 20)RRret_May8v20: wrf.exe_r331,dif_savehydmeteors=1,non_dydrostatic=.false. (04/06/2011) 21)RRret_May8v21: new wrf.exe from Tanya,dif_savehydmeteors=1,non_dydrostatic=.false. (04/07/2011) 22)RRret_May8v22: v21 + Wan-Shu's code for the extra raob levels (05/27/2011) 23)RRret_May8v23: v19(wrf.exe_r330,gsi.exe_r295) + Joe's MYNN PBL scheme (08/09/2011) 24)RRret_May8v24: v19(wrf.exe_r330,gsi.exe_r295) + Joe's fixed MYNN PBL scheme (08/30/2011) **v1-v6: using diff_savehydmeteors=1; v1-v5: using nam berror. RR-retro (May 2010, GOES-R Project: AIRS SFOV Assimilation) ----------- 1)RRret_May8LC_Ctrl: LC version,control run for GOES-R satellite data assimilation projects (3-h cycling) 2)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v1: RLL version,control run (3-h cycling), wrf crashed 3)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v2: RLL version,control run (3-h cycling), without any radiance 4)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3: RLL version,control run (3-h cycling), with radiance(except AIRS) RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3_2: new fixed verification 5)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v4: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 + AIRS SFOV Sounding Data (new verification fixes) 6)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v5: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 - RAOB data (120 just T and 220 UV in prepbufr file) (new verification fixes) 7)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v6: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 - RAOB data (120 both T/Q and 220 UV in prepbufr file) (new verification fixes) 8)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v7: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 + AIRS SFOV Sounding T Data from 100-800 mb 9)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v8: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 + AIRS SFOV Sounding T Data from 400-800 mb 10)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v9: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 + AIRS SFOV Sounding T Data from 400-800 mb + doubling the observation errors 11)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v11: RRret_May8_Ctrl_v3 + 60 km horizontal, 50 mb vertical thinning, AIRS SFOV Sounding T Data from 400-800 mb + doubling the T observation errors 12)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v12: the same as v11 except using the NEW T data 13)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v13: v3 + AIRS SFOV Souding Q Data from 400-800mb,using GSI raob 120 Q error table 14)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v14: v3 + AIRS SFOV Souding T AND Q Data from 400-800mb, both 60 km horizontal, 50 mb thinning,using GSI raob 120 Q error table + doubling the T observation errors 15)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v15: v3 + AIRS SFOV Souding T AND Q Data from 400-800mb, both 60 km horizontal, 50 mb thinning,using 4XGSI raob 120 Q error table + doubling the T observation errors 16)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v16: v3 + AIRS SFOV Souding T AND Q Data from 400-800mb, both 60 km horizontal, 50 mb thinning,using 1X error above 500mb, 10X error below 500 mb raob 120 Q error table + doubling the T observation errors 17)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v17: v3 + AIRS SFOV Souding T AND Q Data from 400-800mb, both 10 km horizontal (acutlly no thinning since data resolution is 15km), 50 mb thinning,using 1X error above 500mb, 10X error below 500 mb raob 120 Q error table + doubling the T observation errors 18)RRret_May8_Ctrl_v18: v3 + AIS SFOV Sounding T with background smoothing, 60 km horizontal and 50 mb vertical thinning (400-800mb) (04/26/2011) RR-retro (May 2010, GOES-R Project: AIRS Radiance Assimilation) ----------- 1)RRret_May8_Rad_v1: Control run (without any raidance data): gsi_r242, (04/26/2011) RRret_May8_Rad_v1_2: using new RH verification FW-to-Wobus 2)RRret_May8_Rad_v2: Control run + AIRS raidance data (05/03/2011) (new RH verification FW-to-Wobus), old bufr file data with bugs 3)RRret_May8_Rad_v3: Control run + AIRS raidance data with the updated mass bias correction coefficients from Rad_v2 (05/05/2011) (new RH verification FW-to-Wobus), old bufr files data with bugs 4)RRret_May8_Rad_v4: control run + AIRS radiance (airs bufr file encoder bug fixed) 5)RRret_May8_Rad_v5: control run + AIRS radiance (airs bufr file encoder bug fixed) with updated bias coefficients from v4 6)RRret_May8_Rad_v6: control run + 1-h cycle AIRS radiance (airs bufr file encoder bug fixed) with updated bias coefficients from v4 (05/27/2011) just 3-day verification RR-retro (May 2010, GOES-R Project: AIRS Assimilation, after 07/26/2011) 1) RRret_May8_SFOV_v1: new updated control run (without any radiance data) (07/26/2011) GSI: r373 (using the PBL pseudo obs. with vs=1.0 + Wan-Shu's code) WRF: r333 dfi_savehydmeteors=1,non_hydrostatic=.faulse. 2) RRret_May8_SFOV_v2: the same as v1, except for without using the radar data (08/01/2011) 3) RRret_May8_SFOV_v3: the same as v1, except for turning off the PBL pseudo (08/09/2011) 4) RRret_May8_SFOV_v4: the same as v3, + SFOV (250-800 mb) Temperature without thinning, with GSI raob 120 error table (08/15/2011) 5) RRret_May8_SFOV_v5: the same as v3, + SFOV (400-800 mb) Temperature with 60 km and 50 mb thinning, with 2X AIRS standard Errors (08/18/2011) 6) RRret_May8_SFOV_v6: the same as v1, except for using vs=0.5 (08/19/2011) 7) RRret_May8_SFOV_v7: the same as v5, except for rejecting any SFOV temperature residial larger than 4 degrees (08/26/2011) 8) RRret_May8_SFOV_v8: the same as v7, except for using 1X AIRS standard errors (08/30/2011) 9) RRret_May8_SFOV_v9: the same as v1, except for just Q ONLY for PBL pseudo (09/09/2011) 10) RRret_May8_SFOV_10: the same as v1, except for just Q ONLY for PBL pseudo and VS=0.5 (09/27/2011) 11) RRret_May8_SFOV_11: the same as v3, + SFOV (400-800 mb) only water vapor with 60 km and 50 mb thinning, with 2X raob error for water vapor 12) RRret_May8_SFOV_v12: the same as v11 + rejeting any residual larger than 2g/kg RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_2 (not completed): the same as v3 + SFOV (400-800 mb) only water vapor without thinning, with 15% error for all levels, cgross=2.0, RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_3 (not completed): the same as v3 + SFOV (400-800 mb) only water vapor without thinning, with 15% error for all levels, cgross=5.0, with bias correction (+15%*guess saturation) plus force to reject any absolute residul large than 75 RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_4 : the same as v3 + SFOV (400-800 mb) only water vapor, with thinning (60 km 50 mb), with 30% error for all levels, cgross=1.0, with bias correction (+15%*guess saturation) plus force to reject any absolute residual large than 30% RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_5: the same as v3 + SFOV (400-800 mb) only water vapor, with thinning (60 km and 50 mb), with 20% error table for all levels, cgross=3.0; with bias correction (+15%*gusee saturation) plus force to reject any absolute residual larger than 60% RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_6(not completed, to 12 May): the same as v3 + SFOV (400-800mb) only water vapor, with thinning (60 km and 50 mb), with 30% error table for all levels,cgross=2.0, with bias correctin (+15%*guess saturation) plus force to reject any absolute residual largher than 60% RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_7(not finished,to 15 May): the same as RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_4 except with bias correction of +10%*guess saturation RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_8 : the same as RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_4 except rejecing all near surface data (under 150 mb period) RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_9 (not finished to 10 May) : the same as RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_8 except using 15% as error for all levels, cgross=2.0, so still rejecting residual larger than 30% RRret_May8_SFOV_v12_10: the same as v12_8 except without bias correction 13) RRret_May8_SFOV_v13: V12_4 + temperature, 2X airs error, rejecting any residual larger than 2*error at each level, rejecting data near surface(150 mb), thinning 14) RRret_May8_SFOV_v14: the same as v13 except for using the data up 50 mb. 15) RRret_May8_SFOV_v15: new control run for later exps.(including AIRS_v1 and AIRS_v2) 16) RRret_May8_SFOV_v16: v15 + 400-800 mb temp with first version bias correction 17) RRret_May8_SFOV_v17: the same as v16 excpet without bias correction 18) RRret_May8_SFOV_v18: NO Data Assimilation 19) RRret_May8_SFOV_v19: ONLY SFOF T + Q(BC corrected) data, no conventional data 20) RRret_May8_SFOV_v20: moisture only with new BC (v1 BC), thinning, QC(30%, rejetting data near surface) RR-retro AIRS radiance (May 10 2010) 1) RRret_May8_AIRS_v1: the same as RRret_May8_SFOV_v3 excpet using AIRS radiance data (68 channels) with the updated bias coefficients from preious two-week (April 23 - May 7) warm up period (11/29/2011) RR-retro (Aug 11- Aug 22 2011 full+ partial cycle run) 1) RRret_Aug11_2011_v1: Radar-denial retro run, GSI: GSI_r381, WRF: wrf.exe_r333, SST update, retro run system is updated to Aug 11-22 2010 Oper RR, missing prepbufr files at 12-14Z 16 Aug 2011 2) RRret_Aug11_2011_v2: the same as v1 except for using MYNN scheme, after 10Z 12 August, using new exec WRF file from Joe. 3) RRret_Aug11_2011_v3: the same as v1 except for using the updated MYNN scheme, time period (09Z 11- 23Z 14 Aug.) (11/15/2011) 4) RRret_Aug11_2011_v4: the same as v1 except for using radar data (11/29/2011) 5) RRret_Aug11_2011_v5: the same as v4 except for addding GOES radiance data (09Z 11- 23Z 14 Aug. ) (12/02/2011) 6) RRret_Aug11_2011_v6: the same as v4 + starting with RUC soil fields(soil surgery using RUC soil fields generating new wrfinput_d01_2011-08-11_03:00:00 for the start of the partial cycle). Includes soil adjustment (main difference), GSI_r417 version, a bit GSI script change. (12/12/2011) 7) RRret_Aug11_2011_v7: the same as v6 + gsi.exe_r428 (also some namelist changed in the GSI script) (snow-radar fix, PW elevation correction, cloud analysis fixes (conserve theta-v, reduce RH when cloud clearing)) 8) RRret_Aug11_2011_v8: the same as v7 + change non_hydrostatic to .true. and change damp_opt to 3, run up to 21Z 16 August 2011 (started 1/3/2012) 9) RRret_Aug11_2011_v9: the same as v8 + dampcoef=0.2 instead of dampcoef=0.02 in v8 (started on 01/08/2012,run to 14 August) 10) RRret_Aug11_2011_v10: the same as v9 + WRFv3.3.1(wrf.exe_r445) (new boundary and 03 and 21 GFS input files from real.exe), cu_diag=1 11) RRret_Aug11_2011_v11: new version of cu_g3 and WRFv3.3.1 (new boundary and 03z, 15z initial files from GFS), cu_diag=1 12) RRret_Aug11_2011_v12: WRFv3.3.1 + v3.2 cu_g3, cu_diag=0, cu_rad_feedback=.false, no quilting (nio_tasks_per_group=0) 13) RRret_Aug11_2011_v13: the same as v12 except using NYNN scheme RR-retro (May 29 - June 12 2011 full + partical cycle) on Zeus 1) RRret_June_2011_v1: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_510 with v3.3.1 G3) 2) RRret_June_2011_v2: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) up to May 31 2011 without SST update and snow trimming 3) RRret_June_2011_v3: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without snow trimming 4) RRret_June_2011_v4: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) 5) RRret_June_2011_v5: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without radiosonde data assimilation 6) RRret_June_2011_v6: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without aircraft data assimilation 7) RRret_June_2011_v7: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without profiler data assimilation 8) RRret_June_2011_v8: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without radar data assimilation 9) RRret_June_2011_v9: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without surface data assimilation 10) RRret_June_2011_v10: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without cloud-drift wind data assimilation 11) RRret_June_2011_v11: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without VAD wind data assimilation 12) RRret_June_2011_v12: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without GPS-met moisture data assimilation 13) RRret_June_2011_v13: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) without moisture pseudo-obs data assimilation 14) RRret_June_2011_v14: using the latest RAP versions (GSI: r_504, WRF: r_517 with v3.2 G3) with a reduced ob error (4 m/s instead of ~7 m/s) for satellite AMV observations 15) RRret_June_2011_v15: the same as v4 except using WRFv3.4.1 with v3.4 G3. Namelist options: cu_diag = 0 and cu_rad_feedback=.false. 16) RRret_June_2011_v15b: the same as v15 except using different namelist options: cu_diag = 1 and cu_rad_feedback=.true. 17) RRret_June_2011_v16: the same as v15 except using v3.5 G3. Namelist options: cu_physics = 3, 1, 0; cu_diag = 0; cu_rad_feedback=.false.; ishallow = 0 18) RRret_June_2011_v16b: the same as v16 except using different namlist option: ishallow = 1 19) RRret_June_2011_v17: the same as v4, except using updated GSI (r_653) which includes mods to radar building/clearing HRRR/RR-retro 1) 4-6 June 2012 RAPv1 control for MT severe 2) 4-6 June 2012 RAPv2 PBL pseudo obs and soil nudging for MT severe 3) 29 June 2012 RAP-HRRRv2 control for derecho 4) 29 June 2012 RAP-HRRRv2 with convective parameterization for derecho 5) 27 April 2011 RAP-HRRRv2 control for tornado outbreak 6) 27 April 2011 RAP-HRRRv2 with contective parameterization control for tornado outbreak 7) 2 May 2010 RAP-HRRRv2 (flooding) for control and convective parameterization 8) 14 Apr 2012 RAP-HRRRv2 (airmass t-storms) for control and convective parameterization 9) 29 June 2012 RAP initial conditions with HRRR-NMM for derecho 10) May-June 2011 RAP AMV inclusion experiment