Installing WRF and WPS

General config

The following setup works for WRF version 4.0!

To install WRF download the WRF and WPS source code from http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/get_source.html and untar into your directory

load the following modules:

• GCC OR INTEL
• HDF5
• NETCDF
• OpenMPI
• JasPER

Known good versions:

• gcc:
  • jasper/gcc/64/1.900.1
  • gcc/6.3.0
  • hdf5/gcc/64/1.10.1
  • netcdf/gcc/64/4.6.1
  • openmpi/gcc/64/3.1.1

WRF

Run ./configure and choose the (dmpar) GNU (gfortran/gcc) option (34?)

Compile WRF as needed (em_real is used for model runs with real data, e.g. ERA-Interim, ECMWF, etc)

WPS

Run ./configure and choose the Linux x86_64, gfortran (serial) option (1?)

WPS Will attempt to find WRF in ../WRFv3. Override this with setting WRF_DIR.

Compile WPS

In namelist.wps edit the geog_data_path to

/lustre/backup/WUR/ESG/data/MODEL_DATA/WRF/geog_v4.0 (still needs to be created)