Data Assimilation Enhancements to Air Force Weathers Land Information System

The United States Air Force (USAF) has a proud and storied tradition of enabling significant advancements in the area of characterizing and modeling land state information. 557th Weather Wing (557 WW; DoDs Executive Agent for Land Information) provides routine geospatial intelligence information to warfighters, planners, and decision makers at all echelons and services of the U.S. military, government and intelligence community. 557 WW and its predecessors have been home to the DoDs only operational regional and global land data analysis systems since January 1958. As a trusted partner since 2005, Air Force Weather (AFW) has relied on the Hydrological Sciences Laboratory at NASA/GSFC to lead the interagency scientific collaboration known as the Land Information System (LIS). LIS is an advanced software framework for high performance land surface modeling and data assimilation of geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) information

ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app: ufs-srw-v2.2.0

<p>The Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) and the Unified Forecast System (UFS) community are proud to announce the public release of the Short-Range Weather Application (SRW App) version 2.2.0. This release is an update to the version 2.1.0 release from November 2022 and reflects a number of changes currently available in the SRW App develop branch. The Application is designed for short-range (up to two days) regional forecasts located anywhere on the globe. The new release includes the following updates:</p> <ul> <li>Bug fixes since the v2.1.0 release</li> <li>Addition of the supported <code>FV3_RAP</code> physics suite (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/811">PR #811</a>) and support for the <code>RRFS_NA_13km</code> predefined grid</li> <li>Addition of <code>FV3_GFS_v17_p8</code> physics suite (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/574">PR #574</a>)</li> <li>Updates to <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/Reference/Glossary.html#term-CCPP">CCPP</a> that target the top of the main branch (which is ahead of CCPP v6.0.0). View a <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/BackgroundInfo/CCPPUpdates.html#ccppupdates">detailed summary of CCPP updates</a> that came in ahead of the SRW App v2.2.0 release.</li> <li>Expansion of <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/wiki/Supported-Platforms-and-Compilers">Level 1 platforms</a> to include Derecho, Hercules, and Gaea C5 (PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/894">#894</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/898">#898</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/911">#911</a>)</li> <li>Transition to spack-stack modulefiles for most supported platforms to align with the UFS WM shift to spack-stack (PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/913">#913</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/941">#941</a>)</li> <li>Overhaul of WE2E testing suite (see, e.g., PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/686">#686</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/732">#732</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/864">#864</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/871">#871</a>)</li> <li>Improvements to the CI/CD automated testing pipeline (see, e.g., PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/707">#707</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/847">#847</a>)</li> <li>Incorporation of additional METplus verification capabilities (PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/552">#552</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/614">#614</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/757">#757</a>, <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/853">#853</a>)</li> <li>Integration of the Unified Workflow's templater tool (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/793">PR #793</a>)</li> <li>Ability to create a user-defined custom workflow (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/676">PR #676</a>)</li> <li>Option to use a custom vertical coordinate file with different distribution of vertical layers (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/813">PR #813</a>) and <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/CustomizingTheWorkflow/LAMGrids.html#changing-the-number-of-vertical-levels">documentation on how to use this feature</a> (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/888">PR #888</a>)</li> <li>Incorporation of plotting tasks into the workflow (PR <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/482">#482</a>); addition of ability to plot on both CONUS and smaller regional grid (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/560">PR #560</a>)</li> <li>Addition of a sample verification case (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/500">PR #500</a>) with <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/BuildingRunningTesting/VXCases.html">documentation</a></li> <li>A new <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/BuildingRunningTesting/Tutorial.html">tutorial chapter</a> in the documentation (<a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/584">PR #584</a>)</li> <li>Incorporation of <a href="https://github.com/dtcenter/ufs-case-studies">UFS Case Studies</a> within the WE2E framework (PRs <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/736">#736</a> and <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/822">#822</a>)</li> <li>Air Quality Modeling (AQM) capabilities (unsupported but available; see <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/pull/613">PR #613</a>)</li> <li>Miscellaneous documentation updates to reflect the changes above</li> </ul> <p>The <a href="https://ufs-srweather-app.readthedocs.io/en/release-public-v2.2.0/">v2.2.0 User's Guide</a> has been updated to reflect these improvements to the Application, and numerous test cases with all associated data files are also available to the public in the <a href="https://registry.opendata.aws/noaa-ufs-shortrangeweather/">SRW App data bucket</a>). Interested users can get support by submitting a question through the <a href="https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-srweather-app/discussions/categories/q-a">GitHub Discussions Q & A page</a>.</p&gt