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WRF ARW User's Guide - MMM - UCAR

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WPP<br />

POST-PROCESSING<br />

The NCEP <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor was designed to interpolate both <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM and <strong>WRF</strong>-<br />

<strong>ARW</strong> output from their native grids to National Weather Service (NWS) standard levels<br />

(pressure, height, etc.) and standard output grids (AWIPS, Lambert Conformal, polarstereographic,<br />

etc.) in NWS and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) GRIB<br />

format. This package also provides an option to output fields on the model’s native<br />

vertical levels.<br />

The adaptation of the original <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor package and User’s <strong>Guide</strong> (by Mike<br />

Baldwin of NSSL/CIMMS and Hui-Ya Chuang of NCEP/EMC) was done by Lígia<br />

Bernardet (NOAA/ESRL/DTC) in collaboration with Dusan Jovic (NCEP/EMC), Robert<br />

Rozumalski (COMET), Wesley Ebisuzaki (NWS/HQTR), and Louisa Nance<br />

(NCAR/DTC). Upgrades to <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor versions 2.2 and higher were performed<br />

by Hui-Ya Chuang and Dusan Jovic (NCEP/EMC).<br />

This document will mainly deal with running the WPP package for the <strong>WRF</strong>-<strong>ARW</strong><br />

modeling system. For details on running the package for the <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM system, please<br />

refer to the <strong>WRF</strong>-NMM User’s <strong>Guide</strong> (http://www.dtcenter.org/wrfnmm/users/docs/user_guide/V3/index.htm).<br />

Necessary software<br />

The <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor requires the same Fortran and C compilers used to build the<br />

<strong>WRF</strong> model. In addition to the netCDF library, the <strong>WRF</strong> I/O API libraries, which are<br />

included in the <strong>WRF</strong> model tar file, are also required.<br />

The <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor has some visualization scripts included to create graphics using<br />

either GrADS (http://grads.iges.org/home.html) or GEMPAK<br />

(http://my.unidata.ucar.edu/content/software/gempak/index.html). These packages are<br />

not part of the WPP installation and would need to be installed.<br />

The <strong>WRF</strong> Postprocessor package can be downloaded from: http://www.dtcenter.org/wrfnmm/users/downloads/<br />

Note: Always obtain the latest version of the code if you are not trying to continue a preexisting<br />

project. WPPV3 is just used as an example here.<br />

Once the tar file is obtained, gunzip and untar the file.<br />

tar –xvf WPPV3.tar.gz<br />

<strong>WRF</strong>-<strong>ARW</strong> V3: User’s <strong>Guide</strong> 9-35

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