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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.