GSI On-Line tutorial

Exercises for the version 2 release of the Community GSI ONLY!

Welcome to the GSI Online Practical Session Guide!

The DTC community GSI analysis system V2 consists the GSI source code, support libraries, fixed files, and run scripts. To build the analysis system, it is first necessary to build the WRF model. This is because the GSI system uses the WRF I/O interfaces for its regional background I/O. Building both the WRF and GSI codes can take a considerable amount of time. Therefore, for this tutorial, both the WRF and GSI codes are provided pre-compiled on the tutorial machines. You will just need to copy the tar file containing the executables into your working directory. These executables should be used for the tutorial. This will be further discussed below.

These tutorial exercises are designed to be run on the Linux workstations provieded in COMET classroom. The source code and data files needed for these exercises are provided, and available on an external directory.

If you want to experiment compiling GSI, directions for doing so are provided at the end of the practical session. For all of the exercises, please use the pre-compiled code to ensure that you get the most from these practical sessions.

Using the COMET Classroom machines FAQ

Setting up the GSI system Check

Case data summary and download Check

Practical cases

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). Prepbufr converter examples [practice]

Building GSI from Scratch Obtaining, configuring, and compiling