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Overview and online Courses about NWP:
1. Scientific basis for numerical weather prediction (NWP).
3. Running the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model
4. Horizontal coordinate transformations & map projections
5. Spectral methods.
Weeks 3: Numerical solutions to the equations.
Weeks 4-5: Errors and effects of numerical approximations.
Zipped files of 1-D Advection movies by Pedro Odon, using different finite-difference methods,
and showing results for different Courant (Cr) numbers:
Week 7: Overview of physical-process parameterizations.
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Week 8: Model initialization and data assimilation.
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Week 9: Ensemble methods.
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Week 10: Verification.
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Week 11: The numerical forecast process and statistical postprocessing.
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Week 12: Operational NWP models.
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WestGrid computer info (old)
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Graphical Postprocessing Packages for WRF
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[Old tips from 2013 (do not use) : Tip1 , Tip2 , Tip3 , Tip4 on GrADS , Tip5 on graphics.pl , Some simple graphics scripts (please download this graphics.tar.gz file into your ~/WRF directory on WestGrid) that creates weather maps using GrADS software so you can view your WRF output. ]