Difference between revisions of "WRF/WPS"

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* [http://www.wrf-model.org WRF hompage]
* [http://www.wrf-model.org WRF hompage]
* [http://forum.wrfforum.com WRF user forum]
* [http://forum.wrfforum.com WRF user forum]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/events/tutorial_131 WRF tutorial]
* [http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/index.htm WRF tutorial]

Revision as of 18:15, 7 December 2012

The software WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting Model) is a numerical mesoscale weather prediction system.


Installation

The get the best performance WRF should be compiled with the Intel compilers and with Intel MPI. For the installation on flow two installation scripts are available:

In both scripts ungrib2 is supported. The usage of the scripts are

    install_wrf_XXXX.sh WRF_RELEASE DIR_TO_TAR_GZ_FILES


Note:

  • The final installation of WRF and WPS will be in the directories WRFV3_v${WRF_RELEASE}_XXXXX and WPS_v${WRF_RELEASE]_XXXXX, respectively
  • The orginal folders WRFV3 and WPS will be removed during the installation process!


SGE script

A basic script to submit WRF to SGE is shown here....


Known issues

The Intel compiler release 12.0.0 produces an bug in the binary ungrib.exe in the WPS-Suite. Due to this bug waves can occurs in the the preprocessed data.


External links