WRFDA Updates for 3.5

WRFDA V3.5

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WRFDA Version 3.5: UPDATES

WRFDA Version 3.5 was released on April 18, 2013.

New features:

Wind Speed/Direction Assimilation: Wind speed/direction observations can now be directly assimilated.

New satellite instruments can be assimilated:

METOP Infrared Atmospheric Sounding Interferometer (IASI)

NPP Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder (ATMS)

FY3 Microwave Temperature Sounder (MWTS) and Microwave Humidity Sounder (MWHS)

Updated features:

Yellowstone compilation options: Specific compilation options for the new NCAR supercomputer Yellowstone have been added. More information can be found at the Yellowstone transition page.

Updated I/O for improved back-compatability with previous versions of WRF and WRFDA

WRFDA-3DVAR can now read two different PREPBUFR observation files at once

The "ntmax" namelist variable is now a vector, and can be set to a different value for each outer loop

WRFPLUS (WRF adjoint and tangent linear model) has been upgraded to V3.5 and it is consistent with the released WRF version 3.5.

For instructions on compiling and running the latest version of WRFDA, please refer to the updated User's Guide

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Compiling WRFDA

Running WRFDA

List and description of namelist variables