Unified Workflow Tools

The UFS Unified Workflow (UW) project is a collaboration between EPIC and several community partners, including NOAA Global Systems Laboratory (GSL) and the University of Colorado Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CU/CIRES), who share a common goal of building software that will unify UFS workflows. The team’s uwtools software is a modern, open-source Python package that helps automate common tasks needed for many standard NWP workflows. It also provides drivers to automate the configuration and execution of UFS components, providing flexibility, interoperability, and usability to various UFS Applications. The Unified Workflow (UW) tools are accessible from both a command-line interface (CLI) and a Python API. The CLI automates many core NWP workflow functions; the API supports all CLI operations and additionally provides access to in-memory objects to facilitate more novel use cases. These options allow users to integrate the package into pre-existing bash and Python scripts, in addition to providing some handy tools for use in day-to-day work with NWP systems.