Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model/UNU 2010 Training

Important notes

1. WRF system uses Universal Time for all its calculations.
2. WRF Domain Wizard can

How your system runs

• WRF model does not run on windows operating system, it needs many advanced services provided by UNIX-like operating systems. We use Linux to run the modeling system.
• It is possible to install Linux side-by-side with Windows on a PC. However, for this tutorial we take an alternative approach: We run Linux inside Windows! This is called Virtualization. We use the excellent virtualization software known as VMWare. VMWare is a free software (but not fully open source!) and shows excellent performance in running Linux within Windows Operating System. This is a technology that has been there for a number of years and a one that has matured to be quite usable in practice. In fact, many companies today, routinely use VMWare to run multiple operating systems in one physical computer.

Let's forget the complications

• I have provided a DVD-ROM Disk packed with all the tools that are necessary to run Linux on VMWare. Just push in the DVD to your computer and click on setup.exe.
• Please note that this system takes up a lot of space. You need at least 10GB of free disk space. If you have such space on a drive that is different from standrad C: (say D:) then direct the installation program to that disk when it installed WRF_LINUX system.

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