WPS Version 3.6.1
Version 3.6.1 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on 14 August 2014.
Note: The V3 WRF model is NOT backward compatible with old V2 input files. One must rerun WPS to generate data for real/wrf.
Also see 'Known
Problems' in this release.
Improvement and Bug Fixes:
- geogrid:
- fix a MPI issue related to writing flag values introduced in 3.6 (posted on Known Problem page on 5/14/2014).
- fix util/plotgrids.ncl (posted on 5/7/2014).
- ungrib:
- grib 2 library updated.
- allow for hybrid level code 118 (for certain UKMET output)
- option to process GFS U, V, T at tropopause and maximum wind levels (use Vtable.GFS+TROP)
- A README file is added in ungrib/Variable_Tables/
- metgrid:
- in METGRID.TBL, interpolation option for soil fields have changed from 'average' to 'weighted-average'. This results in smoother-looking fields
- support 3-digit year
- fix a problem in utility calc_ecmwf_p.F if missing data is present.
