WEATHER RESEARCH
AND FORECASTING (WRF) MODEL

The following are a series of example plots using data from a 'real-data' case. The WRF netCDF files used are different from netCDF files produced by the component models of the Community Climate System Model (CCSM) . For example, the CCSM grids do not change with time while the WRF model(s) allow for this possibility by making the latitude and longitude arrays a function of time.

Note that the examples that follow were written several years ago by Dennis Shea of CGD, and are not related to the NCL graphical routines that are packaged as part of the WRF model. For help with the WRF model routines, please visit the WRF Model Graphics Tools web page. If you need help with these tools, send email to wrfhelp@ucar.edu. An effort is underway to merge these two sets of graphical routines and make them all part of the NCL distribution.

While the latitude and longitude arrays may change with time, this is currently not the case in general. The examples which follow have grids which do not change with time. Hence, they extract the appropriate latitude and longitude arrays from the initial time and use them for all subsequent plots.

Note: The original WRF_contributed.ncl worked on WRF V1 netCDF files. The WRF_contributed.ncl distributed with 4.2.0.a034 will handle WRF V2 files. WRF switched to V2 files in the spring of 2002.

Please post questions to ncl-talk for NCL-related questions.

WRF-related questions should be sent to wrfhelp@ucar.edu.

real data
Contours	XY	Static	Lambert	Mercator	Polar
2D	3D
Ideal 2D	Ideal 3D	Storm