WRF Preprocessing System Version 3.7: Updates

WPS Version 3.7

Version 3.7 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on 20 April 2015.

The V3 WRF model is NOT backward cmpatible with old V2 input files. One must rerun WPS to generate data for real/wrf.

Also see 'Known Problems' in this release.

New features:

• Update GEOGRID.TBL for new 9-arc-second NLCD land use, impervious surfaces, and tree canopy fraction datasets (Thanks to Robert Gilliam (EPA))

• Introduce new capability to optionally process static fields in the GEOGRID.TBL file; this functionality is used for the URB_PARAM, IMPERV, and CANFRA static fields

• Add some helpful suggestions to the domain size checks in plotgrids

• Update the GFS Vtable to work with January 2015 GFS output

• Adjust RH for the NCEP CDAS CFSV2 output (Thanks to Mark Stoelinga and Hui-Ya Chang).

• Updated NCL script for plotting NCEP GFS GRIB files

New terrestrial data sets:

• 9 sec, NLCD 2006 and 2011 40 category datasets; and

• 9 sec impervious and canopy fraction datasets derived from NCLD 2011 (Thanks to ETA)

Bug fixes:

• Fix for zonal shift in Gaussian-grid CFSR data in ungrib

• Add support for CFSR grid number 197 to g2print.

• Add a new stanza for IBM POE for Intel

• Bug fix in ungrib for vertical interpolation in rrpr.F