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WRF Online Tutorial
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Welcome to the WRF-ARW Online Tutorial!
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This tutorial is based on the latest version of the WRF code, and is designed to helps users become familiar with the process of running WPS and WRF. 

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Documentation
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A few resources are available that may be useful while going through the online tutorial. 

*   `WRF Users' Guide`_ : All the details for WPS, WRF, post-processing, utilities, and more. 
*   `WRF-ARW Technical Note`_ : This document contains descriptions of the WRF model equations, discretization, initialization, and nesting, as well as General descriptions of the physics options available in the model
*   `WRF Tutorial Presentations`_ : This page provides links to all the .pdf versions of presentations presented at the bi-annual WRF tutorials, as well as a link to recorded presentations on YouTube.  
*   `WRF Users' Site` : Visit this site for additional information and documentation. 

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.. _Support:

Support
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If questions should arise, please visit the `WRF & MPAS-A Users Support Forum`_. First, use the search tool to determine if the question has been previously addressed. If not, create an account and post a new thread. 

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* `Next: Compiling WRF & WPS ->`_
   

.. _`WRF & MPAS-A Users Support Forum`: https://forum.mmm.ucar.edu/
.. _`Next: Compiling WRF & WPS ->`: ./compiling.html
.. _`WRF Users' Guide`: https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrf_users_guide/index.html
.. _`WRF-ARW Technical Note`: ./../../documentation/technote.html
.. _`WRF Tutorial Presentations`: ./../../events/tutorial.html 
.. _`WRF Users' Site`: ./../../index.html

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.. toctree::
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   Compiling Code <compiling.rst>
   Code Description <code_description.rst>
   Program Flow <program_flow.rst>
   Tutorial Exercises <exercises.rst>