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    Santander Meteorology Group

    http://www.meteo.unican.es
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF basics
    Markel García Díez
    [email protected]
    Santander Meteorology Group
    Dept Applied Mathematics and Comp. Sci.
    Universidad de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    VALUE downscaling
    CORWES/WRF4G schooltutorial
    hands-on 6-15 November 2012,
    4-5 October Santander,
    2012, Tenerife,Spain
    Spain
    Santander Meteorology Group
    Index
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    1. Introduction. What is WRF?

    2. Why is it useful?

    3. WRF workflow: WPS and WRF

    4. Namelists and other configuration files

    5. WRF online tutorial


    Santander Meteorology Group
    What is WRF?
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    What is WRF?
    WRF = Weather Research and Forecasting model

    ● WRF is a Limited Area Model (LAM) developed by NCAR, NOAA/


    ESRL, NOAA/NCEP/EMC and others.

    ●Is a community model, with distributed development and


    centralized support. The code is freely available on internet.

    ● It has 2 dynamical cores:

    - Advanced Research WRF (ARW) → Research

    - Non-Hydrostatic Mesoscale Model (NMM) → Operational


    Santander Meteorology Group
    Why is it useful?
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    Why is it useful?
    WRF is able to downscale coarser models to high resolutions ~ 1
    km with non-hydrostatic dynamics. Furthermore, it offers many
    advantages with respect to other LAM:

    ●It is open source. It is possible to look into the code and modify it.
    Experiments are reproducible.

    ● Flexibility: Large amount of different configurations (physics,


    dynamics, boundaries) adaptable for higher or coarser resolutions,
    long-term or short-term simulations.

    ● Online support, and excellent documentation:

    http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/
    Santander Meteorology Group
    Introduction
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    Applications

    Parametrization research, case studies, short range forecast, data


    assimilation, air quality studies, renewal energy production forecast,
    and renewal energy potential evaluation, and of course Regional
    Climate

    Most frequent experiments are sensitivity experiments. These


    experiments:

    ●Provide a better understanding of the physics and their


    shortcomings.

    ● Can be used to reduce model error and assess the uncertainty.


    Santander Meteorology Group
    WRF workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF workflow
    ● WRF Preprocessing System (WPS)

    - Tools to prepare the data that WRF is going to ingest (geogrid,


    ungrib, and metgrid). They process the driving model data as well
    as the static data.

    ● WRF model

    - Initialization program: real.exe

    - Numerical integration program: wrf.exe


    Santander Meteorology Group
    Wrf workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF workflow

    Taken from http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/tutorial/201207/WRF_Overview_Dudhia.pdf


    Santander Meteorology Group
    Wrf workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WPS WRF workflow

    Taken from http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/tutorial/201207/WRF_Overview_Dudhia.pdf


    Santander Meteorology Group
    Wrf workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF workflow WRF

    Taken from http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/tutorial/201207/WRF_Overview_Dudhia.pdf


    Santander Meteorology Group
    Wrf workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate
    Santander Meteorology Group
    Wrf workflow
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate
    Santander Meteorology Group
    WRF namelists
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF namelists:
    Namelists are simple ASCII files
    which are used to define a large
    amount of parameters of WRF
    configuration.

    WPS → namelist.wps

    WRF → namelist.input

    Other configuration files:


    GEOGRID.TBL, METGRID.TBL,
    Vtables, etc.
    Santander Meteorology Group
    WRF-ARW online tutorial
    A multidisciplinary approach for weather & climate

    WRF-ARW online tutorial


    ● The best way to familiarize with Wrf workflow is to follow the online
    tutorial available in http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/

    ●In this lecture, we are going to run the default case of the tutorial.
    Please go to

    http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/OnLineTutorial/CASES/JAN00/index.html

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