Announcing the Fall 2023 MPAS-A and MPAS-JEDI tutorials

[Michael Duda]

Dear MPAS-Atmosphere Users:

The Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory of the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) will be hosting an in-person tutorial on the Model for Prediction Across Scales – Atmosphere (MPAS-A), followed by a tutorial covering the use of MPAS-A with the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI) system. The tutorials will take place at NCAR’s Foothills Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado during the week of 18 – 22 September 2023, with the MPAS-A tutorial on 18 – 20 September (Monday – Wednesday) and the MPAS-JEDI tutorial on 21 – 22 September (Thursday – Friday). There will be no online/virtual component for these tutorials. Attendees can choose to participate in either or both of the tutorials, and each tutorial has its own registration fee.


MPAS-Atmosphere

The MPAS-A tutorial will cover the basics of how to set-up, run, and post-process stand alone MPAS-A simulations. It will consist of live lectures, questions and answer sessions, and practical sessions where participants will gain experience building, configuring and running the MPAS-Atmosphere model.

Topics that will be covered will include:
• Horizontal (uniform and variable resolution) mesh configuration
• Global and regional configurations
• Real-data and idealized case initialization
• MPAS-A dynamical solver and numerical methods
• MPAS-A physics
• Software framework and MPAS infrastructure
• Post-processing tools

The primary audience for this tutorial is new or beginning users of MPAS-Atmosphere. Basic knowledge of atmospheric science and numerical modeling as well as experience working within a Unix computing environment are required for the tutorial.

MPAS-JEDI

MPAS-JEDI is the global-/regional-unified data assimilation system for MPAS-A based upon the Joint Effort for Data assimilation Integration (JEDI). The MPAS-JEDI tutorial will cover the following topics with instructional lectures and hands-on practicals:

• MPAS-JEDI data assimilation software build and test
• Deterministic and ensemble data assimilation algorithms and configurations
• Preprocessing and assimilation settings of observations
• Global and regional applications

Key dates:
Registration opens: Monday, 17 July 2023
Last day to register: Monday, 28 August 2023
Registration payments due: Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Registration fees:
MPAS-A tutorial: US$ 270
MPAS-JEDI tutorial: US$ 180

For updated information and a link to the registration form (available after registration opens), please visit https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/tutorials/mpas .

With kind regards,

The MPAS-Atmosphere Developers