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WRF-Hydro System Overview
WRF-Hydro System Conceptualization
WRF-Hydro Physics Components Overview
Noah-MP Column Land Surface Model Overview
Channel Routing and Lakes/Reservoirs in WRF-Hydro
Defining the Model Domain & Initial Conditions
WRF-Hydro GIS Pre-processing Tool Overview
WRF-Hydro Forcing Engine Overview
Overview of WRF-Hydro/NWM Calibration
WRF-Hydro Coupling with the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF)
WRF-Hydro Implementation & Best Practices
This demo walks through the process of creating WRF-Hydro hydrologic routing input for the Croton New York example test case.
Docker (Community) = > v.17.12 (currently we use 2.1.0.3)
Web browser (Google Chrome recommended) for accessing the Jupyter notebooks/Jupyter Lab.
Note: Each machine is different. You will need to alternate your Docker settings such as CPUs, Memory, and Disk Space allocations according to your machine to optimize runtime. If you find a bug or other technical issue please log it on the github issues site
Lessons walk you through model compiliation and various model simulations with different configurations.
Click Here to download a .zip file of the completed lessons for reference
Click Here for the completed WPS lesson html file for reference
Click Here for the HTML file of the completed WRF|WRF-Hydro Coupled Test Case Online Lesson
| AMS Short Course:Introduction to the Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System: Interactive Hands-on Tutorial | In partnership with AMS Annual Meeting | Boston, MA USA | 11 January 2020 |
| The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System Training Workshop (Application Opens 07 January 2020) | In partnership with CUAHSI | Boulder, CO USA | 02-05 June 2020 |
| 2nd European Fully-Coupled Atmospheric-Hydrological Modeling & WRF-Hydro Users Workshop | In partnership with the Unversity of Calabria, Italy & the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology | Calabria, Italy | 15-19 June 2020 |
| The 2nd Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System Training Workshop - Costa Rica | In partnership with the University of Costa Rica, San Jose | San Jose, Costa Rica | TBD |
11 January 2020 Boston, MA USA
The AMS Short Course, an Introduction to the Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System: Interactive Hands-on Tutorial will be held on 11 January 2020 preceding the 100th AMS Annual Meeting in Boston, Massachusetts. Preliminary programs, registration, hotel, and general information will be posted on the AMS Web site (www.ametsoc.org).
Registration is now open. See the AMS short course website for information and to register.
Fill out this form if you have registered.
WRF-Hydro®, an open-source community model, is used for a range of projects, including flash flood prediction, regional hydroclimate impacts assessment, seasonal forecasting of water resources, and land-atmosphere coupling studies. It was designed to link multi-scale process models of the atmosphere and terrestrial hydrology to provide:
An extensible multi-scale & multi-physics land-atmosphere modeling capability for conservative, coupled and uncoupled assimilation & prediction of major water cycle components such as precipitation, soil moisture, snowpack, groundwater, streamflow, and inundation
Accurate and reliable streamflow prediction across scales (from 0-order headwater catchments to continental river basins and from minutes to seasons)
A research modeling testbed for evaluating and improving physical process and coupling representations
In this one day tutorial, we will provide an introduction to the capabilities within WRF-Hydro and provide participants with the basic building blocks to start their research with it. Participants will gain experience with hands-on model configuration and execution and run experimental model simulations and comparisons with a prepared example test case. Participants will also be provided with information on additional resources that can be used to further their familiarity with WRF-Hydro and build on the basics learned during this tutorial.
Instructors include subject matter experts and lead developers of WRF-Hydro and the National Water Model from the National Center for Atmospheric Research, David Gochis, and Aubrey Dugger.
Each participant is required to come with their own laptop, capable of accessing wireless internet with prerequisite software installed to participate in the hands-on exercises.
-Docker (community edition) at least version 18.09.2
(docker settings: CPUs - 2 (at a bare minimum)
Memory- 8 GB (recommended)
Swap-1024 MB (recommended)
Disk image max size 60 GB (recommended)
-Google Chrome web browser
For more information please contact Molly McAllister (mollymca@ucar.edu).
NCAR is pleased to partner with CUAHSI to offer the Training Workshop: The Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System, a 3.5-day hands-on training workshop on the use and applications of the Community WRF-Hydro Modeling System.
Applicants must apply to attend the workshop. Applications will be accepted from current and incoming graduate students, post-docs, academics, and professionals working in hydrology and/or the atmospheric sciences. Instructors will review applications to verify in advance that the applicant has the necessary skills and experience to successfully participate in the workshop and get the most out of the course topics.
Prior hydrologic and/or atmospheric modeling experience is required.
Must be comfortable working in a UNIX environment, running UNIX command line operations and text editors.
Familiarity with the R and/or Python programming language is recommended.
How to Apply (the Application period has closed)
See the event website to apply. Applications will be accepted beginning January 15, 2019. Complete applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until 5:00 p.m. ET on February 15, 2019. However, we recommend that you submit your application as soon as possible, as applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis on first-come, first-served. We reserve the right to review only the first 50 applications. Past offerings of this course have filled up very quickly.
Note: Preference will be given to those who have not yet attended a WRF-Hydro training, and are from the academic and nonprofit sectors in addition to the first-come-first-serve policy. Also note: The number of accepted representatives per institution is limited to 2.
Visit the event website for additional information on applying to the workshop. The application period will open 07 January 2020.
Course Description
This training workshop will provide graduate students and early career scientists with formal instruction on the structure and application of the WRF-Hydro system and will offer hands-on experience in setting up and running the system for several different research and prediction applications. Preference will be given to applicants in the Academic and Nonprofit sectors.
Topics to be covered during the workshop include but are not limited to:
Conceptualization and structure of the WRF-Hydro system
Description of physics components and options within WRF-Hydro
Model porting and compilation, and an overview of parallel computing with WRF-Hydro
Hands-on model input data preparation and creation of an example test case
Hands-on model configuration and execution
Hands-on experimental model simulations and comparisons with a prepared example test case
Hands-on example WRF|WRF-Hydro model coupled simulation
Overview of model calibration
Open discussion on class participant interests and applications & interactive activities
Class participants will receive in-depth training via lectures and hands-on activities on the implementation and use of the WRF-Hydro system where all hands-on tutorial activities will be conducted in a formal computer laboratory located at NCAR in Boulder, CO.
Lead Instructor: Dave Gochis, NCAR
Presenters:
Dave Gochis, NCAR
Aubrey Dugger, NCAR
Kevin Sampson, NCAR
Laura Read, NCAR
Arezoo RafieeiNassab, NCAR
Katelyn FitzGerald, NCAR
Ryan Cabell, NCAR
Matt Casali, NCAR
