The WRF model tar file has been updated to Version 3.2.1 on August 18, 2010.

The WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) has also been upgraded to Version 3.2.1.

WRF Version 3.2.1 new features, updates and bug fixes

WRF-NMM specific updates

• Minor syntax change for NMM binary read
• HWRF specific bug fix for momentum mixing term
• Restore type definitions needed for binary I/O on IBM, with a fix to allow compilation with G95
• Bug fix for NMM with some gfortran compilers
• More namelists cross checks

General updates

Phyiscs:

• adapt several microphysics schemes to work at very low pressure (< 5 haPa): wdm5, wdm6, morrison, wsm3, wsm5, wsm6
• myjsfc, myjpbl: changes the computation of virtual potential temperature so that it does NOT include cloud condensate
• Thompson: Fixes a problem with tile artifacts appearing in RAINNC field and probably other model fields when Thompson microphysics used with numtiles set to a high value
• MYJ turbulence scheme bug fix
• YSU: minor bug fixes for PBL Prandtl number calculation in stable and unstable conditions
• MYNN level 3 scheme: fix restart problem
• URBPARM.TBL change: road width, roof level, etc.. Some values in this table were wrong in the 3.2 version
• RRTMG LW reverse a change made for 3.2 that can cause warming spike

I/O:

• fix uninitialized ProcOrient field in linked lists of state variables, which could lead to unexpected stop during a run

Software:

• default number of processors used in parallel make is now 2 (instead of 6)
• add start and end time for compile to show how long it takes
• Make the timing routine available even when the code is not compiled for DM_PARALLEL