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WRF User Support
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Support for the WRF model is provided through the WRF & MPAS-A User Support Forum. Click on the orange button below to access the forum. 

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* `Access the WRF & MPAS-A User Support Forum <https://forum.mmm.ucar.edu/>`_

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Support for WRF Users
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As is expressed in `NCAR/MMM Support for WRF and MPAS <https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/supports/wrf_support_statement.html>`_, support of the WRF modeling system will continue to be provided to the scientific and research community. In order to provide this support effectively and efficiently, the following areas will have higher priority:

*   Hosting workshops and tutorials
*   Maintaining and releasing up-to-date and robust software
*   Maintaining and improving online documentation and online learning materials
*   Participating in user forum discussions and answering questions regarding reasonable use of the modeling system:

    *   Issues that can be replicated in the current version of the released code
    *   Support for standard configurations and usages of the model
    *   Limited physics consultation to a subset of physics suites and options
    *   Answering forum posts that are more likely to benefit a larger segment of the community

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Support for WRF Code Developers
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An important aspect of WRF community support is providing up-to-date and robust software to the scientific and research community. We strive to work with code contributors and make new capabilities available to the community. To accomplish this goal, we ask the code contributors to follow these guidelines:
  
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   Contributors should follow the workflows (using the latest release branch) and tools (Git and Github) used by MMM to contribute to WRF.

*   Any code contributions must meet WRF code standards.
*   Any code contributions must be made via pull requests (PR) on Github.
*   Each PR should be aimed to address a single issue.
*   Moderators from MMM will review the PR and work with contributors to meet the code standards of the models.
*   Contributors must agree to actively support their scheme. This support includes documentation and answering technical questions (through a moderator).
*   The following summarizes background information and provides links to resources for code contributions
  
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