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WRF Preprocessing System Version 3.1: Updates

WPS Version 3.1

Version 3.1 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on April 9, 2009. For V3.1.1 update of WPS, please click here.

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

Also see 'Known Problems' in this release.

New features and bug fixes

- Added support for MODIS-based land use categories as an alternative to USGS categories

- Process static fields for the gravity wave drag schemes in both the ARW and the NMM

- Generalized treatment of 3-d soil moisture and temperature arrays

- Land use data sets with multiple water categories can now be handled

- Added support for sigma-level GRIB1 data

- Various fixes to interpolation schemes (thanks to Hyeyum Shin and Jeremy Krieger)

- The calc_ecmwf_p utility now creates a 3-d geopotential height field to give a correct vertical interpolation in real.exe (thanks to Daniel van Dijke, Chiel van Heerwaarden, and Ravan Ahmadov)

- The plotgrids utility can now handle NMM nests (thanks to John Halley-Gotway)

- Fixed a problem with using 30' data and lat/lon grid.



 
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