Tutorial Lectures

Live, condensed lectures are given each day of the tutorial. PDF versions are available below, but sessions will not be recorded. For full recorded presentations, see the WRF Tutorial playlist on YouTube. Use these as supplementary content (details below)

Lecture PDFS

Access PDF versions of the lectures below:

• WRF Modeling System Overview

• WPS Overview

• Program Real

• Running WPS and WRF

• Practice Instructions

• Overview of WRF Physics (*Part 1*)

• Introduction to Nesting

• Compiling WRF and WPS

• Overview of Physics (*Part 2*)

• WRF Dynamics

• WRF-Python Post-processing Tool

• Idealized Cases

• Advanced Usage of the WPS

• Other Runtime Options

• WRF Computation

• Best Practices

• Verification of WRF Simulations

• Tutorial Summary and Wrap-up

Recorded Lectures

Access the recorded presentations from the WRF Tutorial playlist on YouTube.

Note

The presentations were recorded in January 2021, but the content is still applicable.

To view presentations by chapter, click on the current chapter title at the bottom of the screen (e.g., circled in red below).

You should then see the list of chapters; for e.g.,

Additional Supportive Presentations

• IDV Post-processing:

  • YouTube Channel

  • IDV Training Guide for WRF Output

• VAPOR Post-processing:

  • VAPOR Post-processing (recorded lecture)
    

  • VAPOR Post-processing Tool (lecture PDF)
    

  • VAPOR Katrina Files

• Weather Extremes