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WPS

License information

See the WPS Readme file for more information on the license.

User-installable modules (and EasyConfigs)

Install with the EasyBuild-user module: 

eb <easyconfig> -r
To access module help after installation and get reminded for which stacks and partitions the module is installed, use module spider WPS/<version>.

EasyConfig:

Technical documentation

WPS (WRF Preprocessing System) is a set of programs that prepare meteorological data for use with the WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model. It includes tools for reading, interpolating, and formatting meteorological data from various sources. It is part of the WRF software suite and is used to preprocess input data for WRF simulations.

EasyBuild

The build procedure is an in-place build in the installation directory as there is no proper install procedure.

Version 4.3.1 for 21.12

  • The plotfmt.exe and plotgrid.exe tools are not included at the moment as they require additional dependencies (NCAR Graphics).

    NCAR Graphics then became part of NCL (NCAR Command Lanmguage) which tiself in in maintenance mode since 2019 as NCAR is replacing its graphics tools with Python-based tools.

Version 4.3.1 for 22.06 and 22.08

  • 22.06 uses a newer version of JasPer, but unfortunately WPS is incompatible with it causing the build of ungrib.exe to fail.

    So an EasyConfig for an older version of JasPer was also added to the contributed repository.

  • Improved the sanity checks. Adding sanity check commands turns out to be nontrivial or impossible as it is not possible to simply see if an executable at least loads and starts correctly using something as --help or --version.

    The list of tools in the sanity check is based on the README.md file but the last line adds two tools that were found in the installation directory. Also, plotfmt and plotgrids are not currently included as they require additional dependencies.

Version 4.4 for use with WRF-SFIRE W4.4-S0.1

  • EasyConfig contributed by the EPICURE project, based on earlier WPS EasyConfigs.

Archived EasyConfigs

The EasyConfigs below are additional easyconfigs that are not directly available on the system for installation. Users are advised to use the newer ones and these archived ones are unsupported. They are still provided as a source of information should you need this, e.g., to understand the configuration that was used for earlier work on the system.