stage CCPA, MRMS and NDAS for the vx task at Derecho

[SarahLu-NOAA]

I'd like to add the vx task (running at Derecho). The UFS documentation provides the locations to fetch CCPA, MRMS, and NDAS data. However, these are only for most recent 2 days (for MRMS) and 8 days (for CCPA and NDAS). The out-of-the-box case for SRW v2.2.0 is for 2019-06-15. Please suggest where to fetch these retro analysis. Thanks

[MichaelLueken]

Hello, @SarahLu-NOAA,

In order to utilize the staged verification data on Derecho for the out-of-the box case of 2019-06-15, you will need to replace:

  CCPA_OBS_DIR: ""
  MRMS_OBS_DIR: ""
  NDAS_OBS_DIR: ""

with

  CCPA_OBS_DIR: /glade/work/epicufsrt/contrib/UFS_SRW_data/v2p2/obs_data/ccpa/proc
  MRMS_OBS_DIR: /glade/work/epicufsrt/contrib/UFS_SRW_data/v2p2/obs_data/mrms/proc
  NDAS_OBS_DIR: /glade/work/epicufsrt/contrib/UFS_SRW_data/v2p2/obs_data/ndas/proc

in your config.yaml file. Doing so will allow you to pull the staged verification from disk.

[SarahLu-NOAA]

Thanks, @MichaelLueken, for the info on where staged verification data is located at Derecho. config.yaml is modified and the exp with vx task runs smoothly.