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WRFDA PUBLIC DOMAIN NOTICE
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WRF Data Assimilation System (WRFDA) was developed at the National 
Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) which is operated by the 
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WRFDA, including infringement actions.

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This is the main directory for the WRFDA Version 3 source code release.
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V3.3 Release Notes:
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Version 3.3 is released on April 5, 2011.

- RTTOV interfaces has been upgraded to version 10.0
  Please download RTTOV v10.0 and install it in appropriate location 
  if you want to use RTTOV to assimilate radiance observation with bufr format

- crtm_atmosphere is removed from the namelist. 
  Now the CRTM reference climatology is determined inside WRFDA based on 
  latitude and month.

- New WRF 4D-Var
  The WRFPLUS (WRF adjoint and tangent linear model) has been upgraded to V3.3 
  and it is consistent with the released WRFV version 3.3. However, only dry dynamic 
  processes are included in WRFPLUS version 3.3 and only serial run is supported
  at this release.
  WRFDA is also upgraded to consistent with WRFPLUS version 3.3 and the new 4D-Var 
  system is a single executable application. Please refer to Users' guide for the
  details.

- Lots of bug fixes.

V3.2.1 Release Notes:
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Version 3.2.1 is released on August 18, 2010.

- CRTM interface for radiance assimilation has been upgraded to version 2.0.2.

- CRTM V2.0.2 has been included as an internal library in WRFDA codes.
  Setting environmental variable CRTM to ANYTHING to activate the CRTM installation 
  during WRFDA compilation.

- Multivariate gen_be method which considers the correlations between moisture and 
  other variables is included, but the support for the new capability will be very
  limited.

- Lots of bug fixes.

V3.2 Release Notes:
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Version 3.2 is released on March 31, 2010.

- Improvements on  multiple outer loop which handling nonlinearity issue

- Adjoint sensitivity tool

- Improved software performance

- Improved WRF adjoint codes.

V3.1.1 Release Notes:
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Version 3.1.1 is released on July 31, 2009.

- Radiance data assimilation using K Matrix capability is completed in V3.1.1 release, 
  which dramatically speedup the analysis. To use K Matrix , please 
  set USE_CRTM_KMATRIX=true in wrfvar14@namelist.input. 
  Note: it only applied on CRTM in V3.1.1.

- Improved software portability; only NETCDF library is mandatory 
  if only LITTLE_R formated conventional observational data to be used. 
  To use Prepbufr observational files, just set environmental variable 
  BUFR equal to 1 before the code is compiled. To use radiance BUFR 
  format data, CRTM or RTTOV is needed.


V3.1 Release Notes:
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Version 3.1 is released on April 9, 2009.

- For more information on WRFDA, visit the new WRFDA Users home page
  http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfda/index.html
  and read the online User's Gudie.

- 4DVAR and radiance data assimilation capabilities are included in V3.1.

- New README files under WRFDA/var (README.namelist, README.basics, 
  README.radiance)

- WRFDA V3.1 executable will work with V3.0 wrfinput/wrfbdy (but requires 
  inserting a new namelist variable use_baseparam_fr_nml in &dynamics).
  However, rerunning V3.1 WPS/real.exe is recommended.

- Changes to namelist variables.
    * Some obsolete or unused namelist variables are removed, some new namelist 
      variables are added, purposes of some namelist variables are changed.
      See WRFDA/var/README.namelist for descriptions of supported namelist 
      variables.

- Changes to obsproc:
    * the executable is renamed to be obsproc.exe from 3dvar_obs.exe and
      namelist.3dvar_obs is renamed to be namelist.obsproc to reflect
      its capabilitiy of producing WRFDA-ready observations for 3DVAR, FGAT,
      or 4DVAR applications.
      See WRFDA/var/obsproc/README.
    * compilation of obsproc.exe is included in "compile all_wrfvar"

- Changes to diagnostic output files
    * gts_omb_oma becomes gts_omb_oma_01 (01 indicates outer loop index)
    * observations that fail check_max_iv are listed in rej_obs_conv_01.000
      ( 01 is outer loop index, 000 is processor id)
    * qcstat_conv_01 (01 indicates outer loop index) contains observation 
      number counts

- Most of the scripts under WRFDA/var/scripts are removed from the main source
  code tar file. They can still be downloaded separately.
  See http://www.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/wrfda/download/tools.html

For questions, send mail to wrfhelp@ucar.edu

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WRFDA update history:

- V3.0:     Apr  4, 2008
- V3.0.1:   Aug  6, 2008
- V3.0.1.1: Aug 29, 2008
- V3.1:     Apr  9, 2009
- V3.1.1:   Jul 31, 2009
- V3.2:     Mar 31, 2010
- V3.2.1:   Aug 18, 2010

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How to compile and run?
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- In WRFDA directory, type 'configure wrfda - this will create a configure.wrf
  file that has appropriate compile options for the supported computers.

  Note: WRFDA only requires netCDF library starting with V3.1.1.
        Install netCDF library with the same compiler that will be used to compile WRFDA.
        NCEP BUFR and CRTM 2.0.2 libs are included in the WRFDA tar file. 
        Set environment variables properly according to your applications
        before you type 'configure wrfda'. For example, 

        setenv NETCDF /usr/local/netcdf-pgi
        setenv BUFR 1 (optional, set to compile WRFDA with NCEP BUFR capability)
        setenv CRTM 1 (optional, set to compile WRFDA with CRTM capability)
        setenv RTTOV /usr/local/rttov10 (optional, set to compile WRFDA with RTTOV capability)

- Type 'compile all_wrfvar' when your are ready:

- If sucessful, this will create da_wrfvar.exe and a set of utilities
  in directory WRFDA/var/build/. 

- cd to the appropriate test or run directory to run WRFDA.

     Some basic instruction/namelist.input are available in sub-directories
     of WRFDA/var/test.