Test candidate IODA release in GFSv17

[guillaumevernieres]

Test candidate IODA release in GFSv17

Test the GFSv17 release branch end-to-end with the candidate IODA hotfix.

Steps

1. Clone the global-workflow dev/gfs.v17 branch.
   https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/global-workflow/tree/dev/gfs.v17

2. In sorc/ioda, check out the IODA hotfix branch:

cd sorc/ioda
git remote add emc https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/ioda.git
git fetch emc
git checkout -b hotfix/check_lonlat --track emc/hotfix/check_lonlat

3. Build and link the workflow.

4. Create an experiment similar to the QC development experiments (adt, insitu, etc.) and run it for about 2 days.

[apchoiCMD]

Built g-w with above ioda branch and ran for 5 days, no issue has been found- It might be good to merge with what @JohnSteffen-NOAA has been preparing. FYI, location below is at COMROOT

/scratch3/NCEPDEV/da/Mindo.Choi/expts/gfsv17_release/COMROOT/gfsv17_release