Basic WRF Tutorial Agenda


Tutorial Dates: 14-18 July, 2025

Note

All times in the below agenda are in U.S. Mountain Daylight Time (MDT).



Monday

July 14

Time

Lecture

Instructor

9:00

Welcome Remarks

Joe Klemp

9:15

Instructor and Student Introductions

9:45

WRF Modeling System Overview (video)

Wei Wang

10:15

WPS Overview (video)

Michael Duda

10:45

Break

11:05

Program Real (video)

Wei Wang

11:25

Running WPS and WRF (video1) (video2)

Kelly Werner

12:00

Break

1:00

Practice Instructions

Kelly Werner

1:10

Live Practice Session

2:15

Break

2:35 - 3:30

Live Practice Session



Tuesday

July 15

Time

Lecture

Instructor

9:00

Overview of WRF Physics (*Part 1*) (video1) (video2) (video3)

Jimy Dudhia

9:40

Introduction to Nesting (video)

Kelly Werner

10:10

Break

10:30

End-to-end Setup of a Model Simulationi (Live Demo)

Michael Duda

12:00

Break

1:00

Live Practice Session

2:15

Break

2:35 - 3:30

Live Practice Session



Wednesday

July 16

Time

Lecture

Instructor

9:00

WRF Dynamics (video)

Bill Skamarock

9:30

Overview of Physics (*Part 2*) (video1) (video2)

Jimy Dudhia

10:10

Break

10:30

Compiling WRF and WPS (video)

Kelly Werner

11:00

WRF-Python Post-processing Tool

Abby Jaye

11:30

Other Runtime Options (video)

Wei Wang

12:00

Break

1:00

Live Practice Session

2:15

Break

2:35 - 3:30

Live Practice Session



Thursday

July 17

Time

Lecture

Instructor

9:00

Idealized Cases (video)

Bill Skamarock

9:30

Advanced Usage of the WPS (video)

Michael Duda

10:00

Break

10:20

WRF Computation (video)

Anthony Islas

10:50

Best Practices (video)

Ming Chen

11:20

VAPOR Post-processing Tool

Scott Pearse

11:50

Break

1:00

Live Practice Session

2:15

Break

2:35 - 3:30

Live Practice Session



Friday

July 18

Time

Lecture

Instructor

9:00

Introduction to MPAS

Bill Skamarock

9:30

Tutorial Summary and Wrap-up

Kelly Werner

9:40

Break

10:00 - 12:00

Live Practice Session