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1 The Weather Research and Forecast – Advanced Weather Research (WRF-ARW) Model
Dr Jonathan Fairman 26 April 2016

2 WRF is open source, freely available and incredibly well documented
Technical guide for WRF is located here: Most of the descriptions today comes from this guide and other tutorial presentations

3 Motion

4 Eta Vertical Coordinate

5 Arakawa C-Grid

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11 WRF-ARW

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15 Interaction of Parameterizations
Jimy Dudhia

16 Microphysics Parameterizations
Jimy Dudhia

17 Want to run WRF yourself?

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