WPS Version 3.4
Version 3.4 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on April 6, 2012. For V3.3 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
* Fixes for segfaults in geogrid and metgrid that were occurring when the WPS was built with certain compilers (thanks to Samuel Trahan and Christopher Harrop (NOAA))
* Switch to a new configuration script, which, among other things, makes use of the environment variables JASPERLIB and JASPERINC for GRIB2-enabled builds; the old script can still be used by running "./configure_old";
see the section "Installing the WPS" in Chapter 3 of the Users' Guide for details
* Support for a no-leap-year calendar, enabled by adding -DNO_LEAP_CALENDAR to CPPFLAGS in the configure.wps file before compiling
* Add new VARSSO (variance of sub-grid-scale orogoraphy) field in the GEOGRID.TBL file to support the topo_wind=1 option in WRF. (Please download this dataset before you run this version of WPS.)
* Add new SSiB fields for the SSiB land model option in WRF
* Update the included g2 and w3 libraries to versions 1.2.4 and 2.0.1, respectively
Bug Fixes and Improvements:
* Corrections for Southern-Hemisphere grids in the plotfmt utility
* Corrections to the NNRP Vtable to avoid writing SPECHUMD at just the surface, which led to failures in real.exe
* Update METGRID.TBL files to use missing values (-1.E30) for masked SST fields
* Minor fixes to the plotgrids.ncl script
