Welcome to the UFS Medium-Range Weather App Users Guide!

• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. How to Use This Document
  • 1.2. Prerequisites for Using the MRW Application
    • 1.2.1. Background Knowledge Prerequisites
    • 1.2.2. Software/Operating System Requirements
  • 1.3. MRW App Components Overview
    • 1.3.1. Pre-Processor Utilities and Initial Conditions
    • 1.3.2. Forecast Model
    • 1.3.3. Unified Post-Processor
    • 1.3.4. METplus Verification Suite
    • 1.3.5. Visualization Example
    • 1.3.6. Workflow and Build System
  • 1.4. Code Repositories and Directory Structure
    • 1.4.1. Hierarchical Repository Structure
  • 1.5. User Support, Documentation, and Contributing Development
  • 1.6. Future Direction
• 2. Workflow Quick Start
  • 2.1. Building the UFS Medium-Range Weather Application
  • 2.2. Running the UFS Medium-Range Weather Application
• 3. Build the Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Application
  • 3.1. Install spack-stack
    • 3.1.1. Background
    • 3.1.2. Instructions
  • 3.2. Download the UFS MRW Application Code
  • 3.3. Check Out External Components
  • 3.4. Set Up the Environment and Build the Executables
• 4. Run the Medium-Range Weather (MRW) Application
  • 4.1. Download and Stage the Data
  • 4.2. Running in Uncoupled Mode
  • 4.3. Running in Coupled Mode
  • 4.4. Generate the Forecast Experiment
    • 4.4.1. For uncoupled:
    • 4.4.2. Description of Workflow Tasks
  • 4.5. Run the Workflow
    • 4.5.1. Run Using Rocoto
    • 4.5.2. Run Manually (Without Rocoto)
  • 4.6. Plot the Output
• 5. Components
  • 5.1. Pre-Processor and Initial Conditions
  • 5.2. Forecast Model
  • 5.3. Unified Post-Processor (UPP)
  • 5.4. METplus Verification Suite
  • 5.5. Visualization Example
  • 5.6. Workflow and Build System
  • 5.7. User Support, Documentation, and Contributing Development
  • 5.8. Future Direction
  • 5.9. How To Use This Document
• 6. Code repositories and directory structure
  • 6.1. Hierarchical Repository Structure
  • 6.2. Directory Structure
    • 6.2.1. Global Workflow Sub-Directories
  • 6.3. Experiment Directory Structure
• 7. Inputs and Outputs
  • 7.1. Input Files
    • 7.1.1. chgres_cube
    • 7.1.2. UFS Weather Model
    • 7.1.3. UPP Input Files
  • 7.2. Output files
    • 7.2.1. chgres_cube
    • 7.2.2. UFS Weather Model
  • 7.3. <<<<<<< HEAD
    • 7.3.1. UPP Output Files
  • 7.4. Downloading and Staging Input Data
    • 7.4.1. Static files
    • 7.4.2. Initial Condition Formats and Source
    • 7.4.3. Initial condition naming convention
    • 7.4.4. Default Initial Conditions
    • 7.4.5. Running the App for Different Dates
    • 7.4.6. Staging Initial Conditions Manually
    • 7.4.7. Order of Operations
    • 7.4.8. Coexistence of Multiple Files for the Same Date
    • 7.4.9. Best Practices for Conserving Disk Space and Keeping Files Safe
• 8. Graphics
  • 8.1. Plot Results from MRW Graduate Student Test (GST)
    • 8.1.1. plot_mrw_cloud_diff.py
    • 8.1.2. plot_mrw.py
• 9. Testing
  • 9.1. Test requirements
  • 9.2. Testname syntax
  • 9.3. Query list of supported tests
  • 9.4. Using create_test
• 10. FAQ
  • 10.1. How can I set required environment variables?
  • 10.2. How can I see/check the steps in my workflow?
  • 10.3. How can I run an individual task in the existing workflow?
  • 10.4. How can I change the wall clock time and queue for specific tasks in the workflow?
  • 10.5. What should the wall clock time be for a C768 24-hour forecast on Gaea?
  • 10.6. How can I change the project account that will be used to submit jobs?
  • 10.7. How do I change the processor layout for the UFS Weather Model?
  • 10.8. How do I change the number of OPENMP threads?
  • 10.9. How do I restart the model?
  • 10.10. How do I change a namelist option for chgres_cube or the model?
  • 10.11. How do I turn on stochastic physics?
  • 10.12. Can I customize the UPP output?
  • 10.13. How do I find out which platforms are preconfigured for the MR Weather App?
  • 10.14. What are the compsets and physics suites supported in this release?
  • 10.15. How can I change number of task used by chgres_cube or UPP (NCEP-Post)?
  • 10.16. How can I run the MR Weather App for another date without overriding my previous run?
  • 10.17. How do I diagnose a failure with a high-resolution run?
  • 10.18. How can I diagnose errors when building the model?
  • 10.19. How can I fix cmake build errors of type: This is now an error according to policy CMP0004
• 11. Glossary