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       - title: DART Parallelism
         url: /pages/dart_mpi.html
       - title: Frequently Asked Questions
-        url: /pages/DART2_Miscellany.html
+        url: /pages/Miscellany.html
   - title: Releases
     url: /pages/release.html
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diff --git a/docs/pages/About_Us.md b/docs/pages/About_Us.md
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ DAReS Support (alphabetically)
 | postal address           | "overnight" deliveries   | electronic methods   |
 | :----------------------- | :----------------------- | :------------------- |
 | Lisa Larson              | Lisa Larson              | larsonl @ ucar . edu |
-| NCAR                     | NCAR                     | 303 497 185          |
+| NCAR                     | NCAR                     | 303 497 1858         |
 | P.O. Box 3000            | 1850 Table Mesa Dr.      | 303 497 2483 (FAX)   |
 | Boulder, CO 80307-3000   | Boulder, CO 80305        |                      |
 

diff --git a/docs/pages/DART2_Miscellany.md → docs/pages/Miscellany.md b/docs/pages/DART2_Miscellany.md → docs/pages/Miscellany.md
diff --git a/docs/pages/Models.md b/docs/pages/Models.md
@@ -570,6 +570,12 @@ satellite-borne accelerometers and electon density obtained from ground-based
 and space-based GNSS signals. TIEGCM2 is not yet supported, and the existing
 interfaces need to be updated to work under the Manhattan release.
 
+<span id="wrf-chem" class="anchor"></span>
+
+### WRF-CHEM
+
+Dr. Arthur Mizzi is the father of the WRF-Chem/DART project.
+If you'd like to use WRF-Chem/DART, please [email Dr. Mizzi](mailto:mizzi@ucar.edu,dart@ucar.edu?subject=WRF-Chem/DART%20inquiry).
 
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diff --git a/docs/pages/Presentations.md b/docs/pages/Presentations.md
@@ -5,6 +5,23 @@
 ## 2020
 ----
 
+![](http://www.image.ucar.edu/images/pin4.gif) **Brett Raczka** Aug 2020 :
+    Presented at the
+    [2020 ESA Annual Meeting](https://eco.confex.com/eco/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Home/0)
+    held virtually.<br />
+    Towards a complex terrain Carbon Monitoring System (CMS-Mountains): Development and testing in the western U.S.
+    [\[abstract\]](https://eco.confex.com/eco/2020/meetingapp.cgi/Paper/87176)
+    [\[poster - pdf\]](http://www.image.ucar.edu/pub/DART/2020/Raczka_ESAposter_2020.pdf)
+
+![](http://www.image.ucar.edu/images/pin4.gif) **Kevin Raeder** Jun 2020 :
+    Presented at the 
+    [Earth System Prediction Working Group](http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/workshops/2020/#presentations-espwg) session of the
+    [2020 CESM Workshop](http://www.cesm.ucar.edu/events/workshops/2020/) in 
+    in Boulder, CO, USA <br />
+    A New CAM6+DART 80-Member Ensemble Reanalysis for 2011-2019: 
+    Initial Conditions for CAM, CLM and CICE Forecasts and Forcing for POP, CLM and CICE
+    [\[pdf\]](http://www.image.ucar.edu/pub/DART/2020/espwg_CAM6_reanalysis.pdf)
+
 ![](http://www.image.ucar.edu/images/pin4.gif) **Jeff Anderson** Jan 2020 :
     Presented at the
     [AMS Centennial Meeting 2020](https://annual.ametsoc.org/2020/) in Boston, MA, USA <br />
@@ -19,6 +36,7 @@
     [\[poster - pdf\]](http://www.image.ucar.edu/pub/DART/2020/2019_AGU_2020_AMS_DART.pdf)
 
 ![](http://www.image.ucar.edu/images/pin4.gif) **Moha El Gharamti** Jan 2020 :
+    Presented at the
     [AMS Centennial Meeting 2020](https://annual.ametsoc.org/2020/) in Boston, MA, USA <br />
     A new adaptive hybrid ensemble Kalman filter and optimal interpolation.
     [\[pdf\]](http://www.image.ucar.edu/pub/DART/2020/2020_AMS_MEG_hybrid_oi.pdf)

diff --git a/docs/pages/Research.md b/docs/pages/Research.md
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ looking at systematic features of the increments.
 
   - [Model Performance](#modelperformance)
   - [WACCM](#waccm)
+  - [MPAS ATM](#mpasatm)
   - [OpenGGCM](#space)
   - [Chemical Transport](#chemistry)
   - [\[novel\] observations like GPS RO](#gpsro)
@@ -58,7 +59,91 @@ Kevin Raeder, raeder@ucar.edu</td>
 </tbody>
 </table>
 
-<span id="waccm" class="anchor"></span> 
+<span id="mpasatm" class="anchor"></span>
+-----
+
+### Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS)
+
+<table>
+<colgroup>
+<col style="width: 40%" />
+<col style="width: 60%" />
+</colgroup>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td><img src="../images/MPAS_spaghetti_Z500mb_anal.2008090512.png" alt="" /><br />
+<span style="font-style: italic;"> Spaghetti diagram of the ensemble analysis in terms of geopotential height at 500 mb valid at 12Z 5 Dec 2008.</span>
+</td>
+<td>
+Data assimilation for MPAS is available as an ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF)
+implemented through (Data Assimilation Research Testbed)[http://dart.ucar.edu]
+
+This work is done in a collaborative effort between the
+[Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM)](http://www.mmm.ucar.edu)
+Division and the DART development team. DART support for both MPAS-Atmosphere
+and MPAS-Ocean are available as part of the standard DART package.
+
+In collaboration with NOAA's <a href="http://www.esrl.noaa.gov">Earth System Research Laboratory</a>,
+related efforts are also underway to explore ensemble data assimilation for MPAS-Atmosphere with the
+Gridpoint Statistical Interpolation (GSI) scheme that is operational at
+<a href="http://www.ncep.noaa.gov">the National Centers for Environmental Prediction</a>.
+</td>
+
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+<table style="text-align:" border="0" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
+<colgroup>
+<col style="width: 40%" />
+<col style="width: 60%" />
+</colgroup>
+<tbody>
+<tr>
+<td>
+<img src="../images/MPAS_grid_components.png" alt="" />
+Grid structure used in the MPAS/DART interface
+</td>
+<td style="vertical-align: top">The MPAS/DART interface is
+built on MPAS's unstructured centroidal Voronoi mesh,
+and does not regrid to latitude-longitude grids. In MPAS, the finite-volume
+approach based on a C-grid staggering retains prognostic equations for mass
+at the center of finite-volume cells and for the normal component of velocity
+(<strong><i>u</i></strong>) at the faces (or edges in 2D) of the cells.
+The normal component of velocity (<strong><i>u</i></strong>) at cell edges is then used to
+reconstruct zonal and meridional winds at cell centers (<strong><i>V</i></strong>)
+ using radial basis functions (RBFs).
+To avoid the singularity issue on the poles, the cartesian coordinate is employed.
+
+The forward operators on the unstructured grid mesh are constructed as follows.
+The dual of the Voronoi mesh, or the triangular mesh (shown as dashed lines in the
+figure), is used to search the closest cell center to an arbitrary (or observation)
+point, then find three cell centers of the triangle enclosing the desired point.
+Mass fields are then horizontally interpolated from the cell centers to the observation
+location using a barycentric (e.g., area-weighted) interpolation.
+</td>
+</tr>
+</table>
+
+While the observed wind quantities are zonal and meridional winds, the normal
+component of velocity (<i>u</i>) is the only prognostic wind variable in MPAS,
+we thus implement a couple of different ways of assimilating wind observations.
+The options determine which wind variables are used in the forward operator to
+compute expected observation values; how the horizontal interpolation is computed
+in that forward operator; and how the assimilation increments are applied to update
+the wind quantities in the state vector of the analysis.
+
+Preliminary results based on real data assimilation experiments indicate that
+performance is better when the zonal and meridional winds are used as input to the
+forward operator that uses Barycentric interpolation and the prognostic <i>u</i>
+wind is incrementally updated. However, there remain scientific questions about
+how best to handle the wind fields under different situations.  For the details
+on the wind data strategy, refer to the
+<a href="https://svn-dares-dart.cgd.ucar.edu/DART/releases/Manhattan/models/mpas_atm/model_mod.html" target="_blank">documentation</a> in DART.
+
+For any questions or future collaboration, please contact either
+Soyoung Ha (syha@ucar.edu) or the DART team (dart@ucar.edu)
+
+<span id="waccm" class="anchor"></span>
 
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