Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application

Release Date: 10/31/2023

Release Description: The SRW Application v2.2.0 includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. These components are documented within this User’s Guide and supported through GitHub Discussions. New and improved capabilities for this release include:

• Addition of the supported FV3_RAP physics suite and support for the RRFS_NA_13km predefined grid
• Addition of FV3_GFS_v17_p8 physics suite
• Updates to CCPP that target the top of the main branch (see description of changes)
• Expansion of Level 1 platforms to include Derecho, Hercules, and Gaea C5
• Transition to spack-stack modulefiles for most supported platforms to align with the UFS WM shift to spack-stack
• Overhaul of WE2E testing suite 
• Improvements to the CI/CD automated testing pipeline 
• Incorporation of additional METplus verification capabilities
• Integration of the Unified Workflow’s templater tool
• Ability to create a user-defined custom workflow
• Option to use a custom vertical coordinate file with different distribution of vertical layers
• Incorporation of plotting tasks into the workflow; addition of ability to plot on both CONUS and smaller regional grid
• Addition of a sample verification case
• A new tutorial chapter in the documentation
• Incorporation of UFS Case Studies within the WE2E framework
• Air Quality Modeling (AQM) capabilities (unsupported but available)
• Miscellaneous documentation updates to reflect the changes above

Future work will expand the capabilities of the application to include data assimilation (DA) and a forecast restart/cycling capability.

Release Date: 11/17/2022

Release Description:

The SRW Application v2.1.0 includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. These components are documented within this User’s Guide and supported through GitHub Discussions. New and improved capabilities for this release include:

• Conversion to a Python workflow (from the former shell workflow)
• Improved container support, including the option to run across compute nodes using Rocoto
• Updates to physical parameterizations within the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) (see detailed description here)
• Support for the Unified Post Processor (UPP) to be run inline
• Addition of a multi-purpose code clean-up script (devclean.sh)
• Improved support for the METplus verification suite

Future work will expand the capabilities of the application to include data assimilation (DA) and a forecast restart/cycling capability.

Documentation:

• GitHub Wiki
• GitHub Repository
• Users Guide

Release Date: 06/23/2022

Release Description: The SRW Application v2.0.0 includes a prognostic atmospheric model, pre- and post-processing, and a community workflow for running the system end-to-end. These components are documented within this User’s Guide and supported through a community forum (https://forums.ufscommunity.org/). New and improved capabilities for this release include the addition of a verification package (METplus) for both deterministic and ensemble simulations and support for four Stochastically Perturbed Perturbation (SPP) schemes. Future work will expand the capabilities of the application to include data assimilation (DA) and a forecast restart/cycling capability.