WRF 4.2.2-foss-2020b-dmpar

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The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs.

Accessing WRF 4.2.2-foss-2020b-dmpar

To load the module for WRF 4.2.2-foss-2020b-dmpar please use this command on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR, BEARCloud VMs, and CaStLeS VMs):

module load WRF/4.2.2-foss-2020b-dmpar

BEAR Apps Version

2020b

Architectures

EL8-cascadelake — EL8-haswell

The listed architectures consist of two part: OS-CPU.

  • BlueBEAR: The OS used on BlueBEAR is represented by EL and there are several different processor (CPU) types available on BlueBEAR. More information about the processor types on BlueBEAR is available on the BlueBEAR Job Submission page.
  • BEAR and CaStLeS Cloud VMs: These VMs can have one of two OSes. Those with access to a BEAR Cloud or CaStLeS VM should check that the listed architectures for an application include the OS of VM being used. The VMs, irrespective of OS, will use the haswell CPU type.

WRF Compilation Options

The module name indicates the WRF complication options:

  • dmpar - WRF was compiled with the dmpar, distributed memory parallelism, option
  • vortex - WRF was compiled with the vortex following nesting option

More Information

For more information visit the WRF website.

Dependencies

This version of WRF has a direct dependency on: foss/2020b JasPer/2.0.24-GCCcore-10.2.0 netCDF/4.7.4-gompi-2020b netCDF-Fortran/4.5.3-gompi-2020b

Required By

This version of WRF is a direct dependent of: WPS/4.2-foss-2020b-dmpar

Other Versions

These versions of WRF are available on the BEAR systems (BlueBEAR, BEARCloud VMs, and CaStLeS VMs). These will be retained in accordance with our Applications Support and Retention Policy.

Last modified on 5th November 2021