WRFSI GUI

WRFSI graphical user interface
description	The design of the WRF Standard Initialization (WRFSI) graphical user interface (GUI) is to present graphical tools to complete running of the WRFSI processes in a robust manner that makes sense to the users of the application. Instead of making users read much documentation to begin these tasks, the GUI provides partially and fully completed solutions for users to choose from, and then modify, to satisfy their goals. This allows users to bypass very complicated localization and configuration procedures, especially for those unfamiliar with scripting. Users can get useful results without knowing how to proceed from scratch. An important and necessary first step of WRF is to prepare the Standard Initialization which provides two mandatory parts of WRF: To define and localize the three dimensional grid, To specify the 'static' surface characteristics of land, water and vegetation, and To provide the initial and lateral boundary condition files by interpolating larger scale model data to the domain. These tasks can be assisted with the release of the WRFSI GUI. It provides a safe and efficient method to manipulate the software and modify files. The WRFSI development team highly recommends installing this software. The scripting language used to configure the WRFSI is Perl and the GUI is written in Perl/Tk.
software	The WRFSI Software Release includes this GUI.
on-line documentation and faq	AMS white paper A Graphical User Interface To Prepare The Standard Initialization for WRF (pdf) 03 Nov 2003, in reference to WRFSI GUI 1.3.2. WRFSI GUI User's Guide 2.0.1 (pdf) (doc) 31 Jan 2005 to be used with WRFSI GUI 2.0.1. WRFSI GUI User's Guide 1.3.2 (pdf) 21 Aug 2003 to be used with WRFSI GUI 1.3.2. WRFSI GUI User's Guide 1.3.1 (pdf) 16 June 2003 to be used with WRFSI GUI 1.3.1. WRFSI GUI Installation README FAQ's SI FAQ GUI FAQ Graphics FAQ
contacts	John R. Smart 303.497.6590 John.R.Smart@noaa.gov Paula McCaslin 303.497.3187 Paula.McCaslin@noaa.gov

Last updated: Tue 13 Jul 2004