WRF-NMM Users Page

WRF Preprocessing System Updates

Funding to maintain WRF-NMM at the DTC has ended and support will no longer be provided. To download HWRF, please see: www.dtcenter.org/HurrWRF/users. To download WRF-ARW, please see: www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users . To download NEMS-NMMB, please see: www.dtcenter.org/nems_nmmb/users.To download UPP, please see: www.dtcenter.org/upp/users.

Version 3.6.1 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on August 14, 2014.

Also see 'Known Problems' in this release, which is updated as needed.

WPS Version 3.6.1

Improvements and bug fixes

  • geogrid:
    • Fixed a MPI issue related to writing flag values introduced in 3.6 (posted on Known Problem page on 5/14/2014)
    • Fixed util/plotgrids.ncl (posted on 5/7/2014)
  • ungrib:
    • Grib 2 library updated
    • Allow for soil level code 118
    • Option to process GFS U, V, T at tropopause and maximum wind levels (use Vtable.GFS+TROP)
    • README file is added in ungrib/Variable_Tables/
  • metgrid:
    • METGRID.TBL, interpolation option for soil fields have changed from 'average' to 'weighted-average'. This results in smoother-looking fields
    • Support 3-digit year
    • Fixed a problem in utility calc_ecmwf_p.F if missing data is present

Previous release notes

WPS Version 3.6

WPS Version 3.5.1

WPS Version 3.5

WPS Version 3.4.1

WPS Version 3.4

WPS Version 3.3.1

WPS Version 3.3

WPS Version 3.2.1

WPS Version 3.1.1

WPS Version 3.1

WPS Version 3.0