WRF-PartMC is a coupled model that combines the strengths of the Weather Research and Forecast (WRF) model (state-of-the-art mesoscale numerical weather prediction) with the strengths of the particle-resolved aerosol model PartMC (state-of-the-art aerosol dynamics and chemistry capable of resolving complex aerosol composition). This enables the use of high detailed aerosol representation at the regional scale.
To clone the WRF-PartMC repository:
Change into the clone repository:
cd wrf-partmc
To checkout the PartMC submodule:
git submodule update --init partmc
And if you have access to MOSAIC, you may check it out it by:
git submodule update --init mosaic
In order to compile with MOSAIC support, set the environmental variable:
export MOSAIC=1
This flag will signal to the WRF-PartMC build process to attempt to build MOSAIC.
WRF-PartMC requires WRF-Chem to be built so set the environmental flag (
WRF_CHEM) for WRF-Chem to be included by:export WRF_CHEM=1
To configure and compile, follow the process for a standard WRF installation which is:
cd WRFV3
Set the netCDF path as done for WRF, typically can be done by:
export NETCDF=$(nc-config --prefix)
You should be ready to configure the model by:
./configure
and select the compiler options as you would do in WRF. WRF-PartMC does not currently support domain nesting. You can still build WRF with nesting enabled but you'll be limited to one domain when enabling PartMC.
To compile WRF-PartMC,
./compile em_real
Other choices may include em_rotational, em_les and em_scm_xy. See individual directories in test/ for any specific instructions.
WPS/is the WRF preprocessor that creates the inputs for WRF (version 3.9.1)WRFV3/is the meteorology model and is a modified version of 3.9.1. NOTE: WPS and WRF should match in version number.partmc/is a submodule that points to a specific version that is for WRF-PartMC.mozbc/takes wrfinput and wrfbdy from./real.exeand populates these files with values from the MOZART output.emissions/contains the program to create WRF-PartMC emissions from SMOKE source-apportioned databoundary_and_initial_conditions/contains programs to create initial and boundary conditions from thewrfinputandwrfbdyfiles using MOZART global model output.interface/is all the code required to interface WRF with PartMCmosaic/is the chemistry code which is available by request.