WRF Pre-processing System Version 4.5
This major release of the WRF Preprocessing System includes the following notable changes and fixes:
-
Add entries for
CLDMASK
,CLDBASEZ
,CLDTOPZ
, andBRTEMP
to theMETGRID.TBL
file in support of MAD-WRF. -
Add a new Vtable (
Vtable.GFS_OZONE
) andMETGRID.TBL
entry to allow for processing of GFS total column
ozone. -
Improve the accuracy of the wind rotation angle fields
SINALPHA
andCOSALPHA
at sub-km grid scales. -
Update ungrib to fully support 9-character variable names.
-
Introduce a new geogrid table,
GEOGRID.TBL.ARW_LCZ
, that includes an entry for a global 100-m LCZ dataset. -
Add support for processing DWD ICON model GRIB2 data in ungrib and metgrid.
Aside from changes to the WPS code, the static fields for use with the GSL GWD scheme have also been updated to incorporate corrections to an issue in the orographic asymmetry fields (ufs-community/UFS_UTIL Issue #716).
Acknowledgements: Special thanks are due to Michael Graf (@grafmi), Jordan Schnell (@jordanschnell),
Adam Dury (@WQadam), Pedro Jimenez Munoz (@pedro-jm), Cenlin He (@cenlinhe), and Michael Toy (@mdtoyNOAA).