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WRF Plans and Reports (top)

Research-Community Priorities for WRF-System Development, WRAB, December 2006. (pdf)

Final Report of the Technical Workshop on WRF-ESMF Convergence, February 9 - 10, 2006, Boulder, CO. (pdf)

 

Publications on the WRF ARW Core (top)

Klemp, J. B., W. C. Skamarock, and J. Dudhia, 2007: Conservative split-explicit time integration methods for the compressible nonhydrostatic equations. Mon. Wea. Rev., accepted (pdf).

Skamarock, W. C., 2004: Evaluating Mesoscale NWP Models Using Kinetic Energy Spectra. Mon. Wea., Rev., 132, 3019-3032 (pdf)

Skamarock, W. C., 2006: Positive-Definite and Montonic Limiters for Unrestricted-Timestep Transport Schemes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 134, 2241-2250 (pdf)

Skamarock, W. C., and J. B. Klemp, 2007: A time-split nonhydrostatic atmospheric model for research and NWP applications. J. Comp. Phys., special issue on environmental modeling. Accepted (pdf).

Skamarock, W. C., J. B. Klemp, J. Dudhia, D. O. Gill, D. M. Barker, W. Wang and J. G. Powers, 2005: A Description of the Advanced Research WRF Version 2 (pdf file)

Klemp, J. B., W. C. Skamarock, and J. Dudhia, 2000: Conservative split-explicit time integration methods for the compressible nonhydrostatic equations. (pdf file)

Wicker, L. J., and W. C. Skamarock, 2002: Time splitting methods for elastic models using forward time schemes. Mon. Wea. Rev., 130, 2088-2097. (pdf file)

 

Publications on the WRF NMM Core (top)

An Evolutionary Approach to Nonhydrostatic Modeling (PDF)

Janjic, Z. I., J. P. Gerrity, Jr. and S. Nickovic, 2001: An Alternative Approach to Nonhydrostatic Modeling. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 129, 1164-1178. (PDF)

Janjic, Z. I., 2003: A Nonhydrostatic Model Based on a New Approach. Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 82, 271-285. (HTML)

Janjic, Z., T. Black, M. Pyle, E. Rogers, H.-Y. Chuang, and G. DiMego, 2005: High resolution applications of the WRF NMM. Extended abstract, 21st Conference on Weather Analysis and Forecasting/17th Conference on Numerical Weather Prediction, American Meteorological Society, July 31 August 5, 2005, Washington, DC, 21 pp. (PDF)

 

Publications on WRF Architecture (top)

Michalakes, J., J. Dudhia, D. Gill, T. Henderson, J. Klemp, W. Skamarock, and W. Wang, 2004: "The Weather
Reseach and Forecast Model: Software Architecture and Performance,"to appear in proceedings of the 11th
ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing In Meteorology, 25-29 October 2004, Reading
U.K. Ed. George Mozdzynski. (PDF)

Michalakes, J., S. Chen, J. Dudhia, L. Hart, J. Klemp, J. Middlecoff, and W. Skamarock (2001): Development of a Next Generation Regional Weather Research and Forecast Model. Developments in Teracomputing: Proceedings of the Ninth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology. Eds. Walter Zwieflhofer and Norbert Kreitz. World Scientific, Singapore. pp. 269-276.

Presentations and code walkthrough for WRF software, presented January 26-28, 2004 at NCAR. Inaugural Meeting of WRF Training and Documentation Team (Tiger Team). (HTML)

Michalakes, J.G., "Weather Research and Forecast Model 1.2: Software Design and Implementation", internal draft documentation, October 2002. (Word)

Michalakes, J.G., M. McAtee, J. Wegiel, "Software Infrastructure for the Weather Research and Forecast Model", in proceedings of UGC 2002, June, Austin, Texas, 13pp. (HTML - Word)

Michalakes, J., (Draft Feb 2002): Preliminary I/O Performance in WRF: NetCDF vs. Binary with Quilt I/O. (HTML - Word)

Michalakes, J., S. Chen, J. Dudhia, L. Hart, J. Klemp, J. Middlecoff, and W. Skamarock (2001): "Development of a Next Generation Regional Weather Research and Forecast Model" in Developments in Teracomputing: Proceedings of the Ninth ECMWF Workshop on the Use of High Performance Computing in Meteorology. Eds. Walter Zwieflhofer and Norbert Kreitz. World Scientific, Singapore. pp. 269-276. (HTML - Word)

Michalakes, J., R. Loft, A. Bourgeois (2001): "Performance-Portability and the Weather Research and Forecast Model" in on-line proceedings of the HPC Asia 2001 conference, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia, September 24-28, 2001. (Powerpoint - PDF)

Michalakes, J. "Performance and Maintainability: Conflicting Concerns in Large Community Weather Models." University of Chicago Computational Institute, January 12, 2001. (HTML)

Michalakes, J., J. Dudhia, D. Gill, J. Klemp and W. Skamarock: Design of a next-generation regional weather research and forecast model : Towards Teracomputing, World Scientific, River Edge, New Jersey, 1998, pp. 117-124. (HTML)