WRF Real-Time Forecasts

There are a number of groups that are running WRF in real-time.

NCAR:

15 km CONUS, 72 h fcst from 00/12 Z initialization from GFS grib data. (old site)

Grell-Freitas convective parameterization
YSU PBL scheme
Thompson microphysics
RRTMG short and longwave radiation
Noah land surface model
15 km grid length, 39 vertical levels, using adaptive time stepping

NOAA/ESRL/GSD

18 h CONUS WRF-RAP runs, 00 and 12 UTC initialization

Grell convective parameterization
ETA TKE PBL scheme
Thompson/NCAR microphysics
RRTM longwave radiation
Dudhia shortwave radiation
Smirnova-RUC land-surface parameterization
13 km grid length, 50 vertical levels

15 h CONUS WRF-HRRR runs, 3 km, hourly initialization frmo RAP native-level data

NOAA/NSSL

36 h, WRF 4 km forecast for sub-CONUS.

No convective parameterization
MYJ PBL scheme
WSM6 microphysics
RRTM longwave radiation
Dudhia shortwave radiation
Noah land-surface parameterization
4 km grid length, 35 vertical levels, time step 24 sec

US Universities

University of Illinois real time WRF ensemble forecast at 18 or 12 km (midwest region), 72 - 120 h forecast, 00 and 12 UTC initialization. More info ...

Millersville University 25 km, east of Rocky's, 48 - 60 h, mass coordinate

KF cumulus scheme
NCEP3 microphysics
RRTM longwave radiation
Dudhia shortwave radiation
MRF PBL scheme
Thermal diffusion scheme

CAPS 27 km CONUS and 9 km central US, mass coordinate

Jackson State University 27 km, southeastern US, 36 h, mass coordinate

University of Washington 45 km ensemble Kalman Filter Forecast

NCEP/EMC HiResWindow forecasts 5.8 km, eastern, central, western US, and Alaska WRF forecasts, 48 h, mass coordinate

YSU PBL scheme
Ferrier microphysics
RRTM longwave radiation
Dudhia shortwave radiation
Noah land-surface model
5.8 km grid length, 35 vertical levels

Overseas:

- WRF forecasts for Mexico and Uruguary at the Unidad de Meteorologia, Instituto de Fisica.

- WRF forecasts for Italy by Institute of Atmospheric Sciences and Climate (ISAC) of the Italian National Research Council (CNR), Lecce Section, Italy.

- WRF forecasts by youmeteo.com, with real-time forecasts for Italy and Europe.

- WRF forecast by MeteoNetwork of Italy.

- Daily WRF Forecasts for southern Italy, by the Center Study for Monitoring and Modelling the Environment (CeSMMA, affiliated with University of Calabria)

Static forecast using NCL
Dynamic and interactive forecast
General description (in Italian)

- WRF forecasts by Weather It Is, Israel. Click on 'About the WRF' on the Maps page for information.

- WRF forecasts by Slovenian Meteorological Amateur Research Team (in Slovenian).

- WRF forecasts by Institute of Astronomy and Meteorology of the University of Guadalajara, Mexico.

- WRF forecast for Vietnam and Southeast Asia by AMI Environmental.

- WRF forecast for North Atlantic and Iceland by the Institude for Meteorological Research, Reykjavik, Iceland.

- WRF forecast by Earth Sciences Department, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain.

- WRF forecast by DreiTageWetter with operational forecasts for Germany and Central Europe.

- WRF forecast by the Secretariat of Civil Protection for the State of Veracruz , Mexico

- WRF forecast by the Autonomous University of Querétaro for the state of Querétaro, Mexico