The WRF development team [through the WRF mailing list] has announced the release of the Weather Research Forecast code version 3.1. This release includes updates to WPS, WRF, WRFDA, post processing apps, RIP4, ARWpost and WPP. They’ve also added a new objective analysis program, obsgrid. Highlights include:
- Gravity wave drag for ARW and NMM
- Spectral nudging and surface analysis nudging for ARW
- WRF NMM operational (NCEP) physics and dynamics
- New physics modules
- Monotonic transport scheme
- Single column model idealized case
- WRF-DA: radiance assimilation and 4DVAR (with limited support)
- Software improvement
For more info on the specific details on this release, read the full release notes here.
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