Welcome to the SOO Science and Training Resource Center

The SOO/STRC site is maintained to better serve the science and training needs of the National Weather Service Science Operations Officers, and to reflect the changing direction of the National SOO/STRC Program.

SOO/STRC Mission: To support the NWS Science Operations Officers (SOOs) by facilitating the use of new science and training technologies in the WFOs.

 

It's Official: SOO STRC WRF Environmental Modeling System Version 3

The Weather Research and Forecast Environmental Modeling System (WRF EMS) is a complete, full-physics, state-of-the-science numerical weather prediction (NWP) system that incorporates dynamical cores from both the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) Advanced Research WRF (ARW) and the National Center for Environmental Predictions' (NCEP) non-hydrostatic mesoscale model (NMM) releases into a single end-to-end forecasting package. All the capability of the NCEP and NCAR packages are retained within the WRF EMS; however, installation, configuration, and running of the NCEP and NCAR versions have been greatly simplified to encourage its use by operational forecast offices, private industry, and the University community.

Nearly every element of an operation NWP system has been integrated into the WRF EMS, including data acquisition, processing of initialization files, model execution, forecast post processing, file migration and archiving, and the display of the model forecasts.  Real-time operations are simplified through the use of an automated process that incorporates various fail-over options and the synchronous post processing and distribution of forecast files. Additionally, the WRF EMS can be easily configured to run on a locally-build cluster of Linux computers (Beowulf clusters).

30 January 2009 - Announcement

Beta 2 released: SOO STRC WRF Environmental Modeling System Version 3 beta 2

19 March 2009 - Announcement

 

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