WRFtailor

Tailoring and modification of the WRF input data over an area of interest

Modify your WRF input data, in the same simple way as you run the WRF model!

WRFtailor is a namelist-based tool, written in NCL and Bash scripts, to tailor and modify WRF input data (geo files, emissions data, etc).

Main capabilities:

• Modify WRF input data over an AOI by a shapefile mask
• Modify WRF input data over an AOI by setting a lat/lon bounding box
• Modify WRF input data over specific grid points by setting a list of lat/lon coordinates
• Modify WRF input data over the area of the smallest domain (subdomain)
• Modify WRF input data by replacing the values from a GeoTIFF file into the WRF input data

Sample applications:

Installation:

Install NCL on a Linux machine (e.g. Fedora):

sudo dnf install ncl

That's enough for all of the WRFtailor's capabilities!

Run WRFtailor:

1. git clone git@github.com:anikfal/wrftailor.git
2. cd wrftailor
3. chmod +x wrftailor.sh modules/*.sh
4. Copy or link your WRF input files (e.g. geo files) in the WRFtailor directory
5. ./wrftailor.sh
6. If everything has been set correctly, you can tailor and modify your WRF input data according to the enabled section in namelist.tailor.

HTML Documentations:

Documentations with practical examples: https://wrftailor.readthedocs.io/en/latest

YouTube Training Videos:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL93HaRiv5QkA8uzFzcZkyTqkKPweJajrJ&si=kCJ3UNvnJlrGXFWd