1^st GSI User Orientation

4-5 January 2005 @ Room 209, WWB, Camp Springs, MD

Presentation	Speaker(s)
High-level Overview of GSI systems	John Derber
Observations, PrepBUFR, and the interface to PrepBUFR	Dennis Keyser
Observation error: estimation & qc (conventional & satellite retrievals)	Wan-Shu Wu
Satellite radiance treatments	John Derber
Reflectivity and wind radar data treatment and gross quality control (Marshall, Parrish)	Curtis Marshall, Dave Parrish
Nonlinear quality control within GSI	Dave Parrish
Minimization and pre-conditioning, inner and outer loops	John Derber
Recursive filter primer	Jim Purser
Background errors and their estimation (Parrish, Wu)	Dave Parrish, Wan-Shu Wu
Anisotropic capabilities (Parrish, Pondeca)	Dave Parrish, Manuel Pondeca
WRF connections	Dave Parrish
The GSI code	Russ Treadon
Analysis Input/Output	Russ Treadon
Cycling issues – How NCEP is going to do it	Wan-Shu Wu
GSI Compilation, Coding, & Updates	Russ Treadon