WPS Version 3.0.1 (Details)
WPS Version 3
Version 3 of the WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) was released on April 4, 2008.
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
- Supports the regular latitude-longitude projection, including rotated
versions, for global and regional ARW domains
- Support for IBM Blue Gene/L systems (Michalakes)
- Support for Mac Intel systems with g95
- Support for parallel compilation with MPI for g95 configurations
- Support for Linux systems with gfortran
- Greater flexibility in specifying geographical data set resolution to
interpolate from; a sequence of resolutions to try can now be given for
geog_data_res
- Update and correct several Vtables, add comments
- new support for JMA GSM and NCEP GFS Ensembles
- fully support RUC hybrid grid files (thanks to Tanya Smirnova, ESSL/NOAA)
- added an optional Product Definition Template column to the Grib2 Vtable. Now ungrib can distinguish between instantaneous (default) and accumulated fields (e.g. SNOWH).
- added ability to decode tropopause and max wind levels from NCEP Grib files. (eventually these fields will be used in real.exe)
- add ECMWF grid codes to g1print
- improve appearance of plotfmt plots
- Metgrid will now halt if any fields contain points not covered by data
- Added utility program calc_ecmwf_p, allowing ECMWF model-level data
to be better supported (Zaengl)
- The landmask field in geogrid can now be based off of data sets that
have multiple water categories defining water regions
Bug fixes
- Corrected serious error in rotation of wind fields from
non-earth-relative input wind fields that was present in v2.2.1
(although a bug fix was released for v2.2.1 immediately after the
bug was discovered on 2007-12-05
