2004 COAMPS™ Workshop and Training

Last Updated: Tuesday, 15-Jul-2008 11:05:00 PDT

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On 10-13 August, NRL hosted its annual COAMPS™ user's workshop and training classes. Over forty users including NAVY officers, university researchers/faculty/graduate students, and researcher from NRL and other DOD agencies/contractors attended the three and a half day event.

Recent model improvements and case studies were presented at the workshop. The atmospheric improvements included a new bulk microphysics scheme that predicts graupel and number concentration, a new slab soil moisture parameterization that corrects the model surface cold temperature bias problem, a new LES capability (not releasable on the COAMPS™ web site yet), a new land surface model, and a new dust component in the aerosol/tracer module. The ocean improvements included a new MPI version of ocean analysis that has better scalability over the global domain. Simulation results from individual researchers were also presented and included studies of the coupled atmosphere and ocean, squall line formation, tropical cyclone prediction, fog prediction, coupled wave prediction, and air pollution. The scientific presentations were followed by the presentations of COAMPS™ integration into the Weather Research Model (WRF) framework, idealized mountain waves comparisons between COAMPS™ and WRF, the COAMPS™ user support, and general discussion.

The two and a half day training class covered information regarding the source code installation, model run script setup, model source code modification, running the model , displaying model results, and the COAMPS-OS™ GUI interface. The training class was well received. A CD ROM (shown in the below figure) that contains the workshop presentations and training materials was distributed to the workshop and training participants and is available upon request (send email to coamps@nrlmry.navy.mil). Visit the official COAMPS™ web site (http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/coamps-web) for other COAMPS™ related information.

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