Practical
Start from now on ~
Exercise
It’s up to you how gonna decide
the task among groups
In the end of course meeting → T
HE FULL MODULE HAS TO BE
HANDED → ONE FILE PER CL
ASS
Group-Class Assignment!!!
Every practical activity has to be documented as a REPORT!
This is a list of exercise we gonna do:
❑ Installing Linux OS and WRF Libraries → Week #5
❑ Installing WRF Model (WPS + WRF Model + ARWPost )
→ Week #6
❑ Translating and understanding WRF running operation
(namelist.wps + namelist.input) → Week #7
❑ Downloading GCM/WRF Model Input and
list/understanding every single parameter in GCM →
Week #9
❑ WPS Running (Manual and using WRFDomainWizard)
→ Week #10
❑ Displaying domain and WRF Running → Week #11
❑ Translating and understanding ARWPost manual +
Running ARWPost → Week #12
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD WRF SOURCE CODE
❑ Go to www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/download/g
et_sources.html#WRF-ARW
❑ Download with wget command
❑ Download WRF and WPS Version 3.9.1 and ARW
Post for the latest one
❑ Gunzip and untar the .gz file with tar command →
tar –xzvf file.gz
❑ Go to WRFV3 directory for next step
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD WRF SOURCE CODE
Practical Exercise
CONFIGURING WRF
❑ Type ./configure
❑ You will find two type of configure
1. Choices for LINUX operated machine as shown below:

……
Choose for gfortran + dmpar
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CONFIGURING WRF
2. Choices for nesting area as shown below:

Default is 0 → serial/smpar, 1 → dmpar

NOTE:
SMPAR → Shared Memory Parallelism
DMPAR → Distributed Memory Parallelism
Practical Exercise
COMPILING WRF
Type the following command:
./compile test_case >& name_file.log &

where test_case option as shown below:

Practical Exercise
COMPILING WRF
What is the criteria of successful compilation?

There will be at least 4 executable files

❑ real.exe → for initializing real data cases
❑ wrf.exe → model integration / calculation
❑ ndown.exe → for one-way nesting
❑ tc.exe → for tropical cyclone
❑ nup.exe (optional) → not used much as those me
ntioned above

These files will be linked to both directories test/em_real

and run
Practical Exercise
CLEAN COMPILATION
Type the:
❑ ./clean → remove all objects except in the external
❑ ./clean –a → remove all built files include the configure.
wrf files

./clean –a is recommended if
❑ Compilation failed
❑ Registry changed (e.g. on/off the variables in history file)
❑ Re-compile to change the different dynamic core (e.g. ch
ange the part of paramaterization)
❑ Change the configuration file
❑ Change to or from the chemistry option
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD WPS SOURCE CODE
❑ Download static terrestrial data → data geog (it’s already the
re) just link it when start running
❑ Why?
❑ Save the memory → large size

❑ Download source code (already done through WRF downloa

ding) → just need to gunzip and untar it!
❑ For simplicity → please install WPS in the same location/
same level as WRFV3!

❑ Configure and compile WPS

NOTE:
A successful WRF compilation is required to this step!
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD WPS SOURCE CODE
Practical Exercise
CONFIGURING & COMPILING WPS
❑ Type ./configure command
❑ Successful → configure.wps appears, this file contains compiler choices,
rules, etc. → used as in WRF

❑ Type ./compile >& name_file.log

❑ The success of compilation will give you at least the three files:
❑ geogrid.exe → define size/location of the selected domain(s)
❑ ungrib.exe → extract the meteorological fields from GRIB file
❑ metgrid.exe → interpolating the meteorological fields horizontally
(from ungrib process) to simulate the grid (from geogrid step) → th
e combination of those earlier step to provide ‘a ready’ file for initiali
zing real data case
Practical Exercise
CONFIGURING & COMPILING WPS
If the compilation MORE SUCCESS you will find these follo
wing executable files → can be found in util directory
❑ avg_tsfc.exe
❑ g1print.exe
❑ g2print.exe
❑ mod_levs.exe
❑ rd_intermediate.exe
❑ calc_ecmwf_p.exe

If the NCL (NCAR Graphic Libraries) are installed → the

se below files also will be there:
❑ plotgrids.exe
❑ plotfmt.exe
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD ARWPost SOURCE CODE (OPTIONAL)
❑ Go to http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/d
ownload/get_sources.html#post_processing
❑ Download with wget command
❑ Gunzip and untar the .gz file with tar comman
d → tar –xzvf file.gz
❑ Go to ARWPost directory for next step
Practical Exercise
DOWNLOAD WRF SOURCE CODE
Practical Exercise
CONFIGURING & COMPILING ARWPost (OPTIONAL)
❑ Type ./configure command → used the same compiler as two steps before

❑ Go to src directory and edit the Makefile file → change the line which co
ntain this information with :
ARWpost.exe: $(OBJS)
$(FC) $(FFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS) –o $@ $(OBJS) \
-L$(NETCDF)/lib –lnetcdf –lnetcdff –I$(NETCDF)/include -lnetcdf

❑ Open the configure.arwp and edit the line which contain:

❑ CFLAGS → change -m64 to –fPIC
❑ CPP→ remove the –c from the line

❑ Type ./compile >& name_file.log