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Weather Research and Forecasting Model
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The Weather Research and Forecasting Model (WRF) is a state-of-the-art atmospheric modeling system designed for both meteorological research and numerical weather prediction. It offers a host of options for atmospheric processes and can run on a variety of computing platforms. WRF excels in a broad range of applications across scales ranging from tens of meters to thousands of kilometers, including meteorological studies, real-time NWP, idealized simulations, data assimilation, Earth system model coupling, and model training and educational support. WRF is a community model, with the bulk of its development and support taking place in the Mesoscale and Microscale Meteorology (MMM) Laboratory at NSF NCAR. WRF code is free, open-source code, available to everyone to obtain.

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            .. rubric:: `Access Code and Related Packages <https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/site/access_code.html>`__ |br|

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            Access WRF & WPS code, data, static fields, post-processing, utility packages, and code testing/benchmarking information.



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            *   `WRF Users' Guide <./documentation/users_guide/overview.html>`_ 
            *   `Frequently Asked Questions <https://forum.mmm.ucar.edu/forums/frequently-asked-questions.115/>`_ 
            *   `WRF & WPS Best Practices <documentation/best_practices.html>`_
            *   `WRF Technical Note <./documentation/technote.html>`_
            *   `WRF Physics <./documentation/physics.html>`_
            *   `Using NSF NCAR'S Derecho HPC <./documentation/using_derecho.html>`_ 



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            .. rubric:: `Online Learning Tools <https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/site/online_learning_tools.html>`__

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            Find online material and tutorials on installing and running the WRF model and its applications.



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            .. rubric:: `Code Contribution <https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/site/code_contribution.html>`__

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            Information on contribution to the WRF code. 

   
            
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            *   `NSF NCAR/MMM WRF Real-time Forecast <https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/projects/wrf-model/plots/realtime_main.php>`_ 
            *   `NSF NCAR MMM <https://www.mmm.ucar.edu/>`_ 
            *   `NSF NCAR|UCAR <https://ncar.ucar.edu/>`_
            *   `NSF NCAR Computation and Information Systems Lab <https://www.cisl.ucar.edu/>`_
            *   `Unidata (netCDF) <https://www.unidata.ucar.edu/>`_



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            Access other WRF systems, managed by groups outside of the basic WRF model support and development team
            
            *   `WRFDA <http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfda/index.html>`_
            *   `WRF-Chem <http://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem/>`_
            *   `WRF for Hurricanes <http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/hurricanes/wrf_ahw.html>`_
            *   `WRF for Wildland Fire <http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/fire/wrf-fire.html>`_
            *   `WRF-Hydro <http://www.ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf_hydro/>`_
            *   `WRF-Solar <https://ral.ucar.edu/projects/wrf-solar>`_
            *   `WRF-Urban <https://ral.ucar.edu/solutions/products/urban-canopy-model>`_
            *   `WRF-HYSPLIT <https://www.arl.noaa.gov/hysplit/inline-wrf-hysplit-coupling/>`_
            *   `COAWST <https://www.usgs.gov/node/279414>`_




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   Access Code & Packages <access_code.rst>
   online_learning_tools.rst
   code_contribution.rst
   support.rst 
   news_events.rst
   Users Guide <./documentation/users_guide/overview.rst>