Releases: WRF-GC/wrf-gc-release
Releases · WRF-GC/wrf-gc-release
3.0.0
This is version 3.0 of WRF-GC, released April 22, 2024.
Please do not download this release as a .zip or .tar.gz file directly. Refer at all times to the instructions in the WRF-GC documentation.
- Feature: Supports GEOS-Chem 14.1.1, KPP 3.0.0, and HEMCO 3.6.2.
- Feature: Supports WRF version 4.4.
- Feature: Infrastructure for specialty simulations. Now can install couplers for fullchem, ch4, and co2 using the
install_registry
command. - Feature: Add support for History diagnostics and HEMCO diagnostics ("WRF-GC 3.0 Diagnostics") using pNETCDF.
- Technical Update: Compiles GEOS-Chem 13+ without using CMake by maintaining the legacy GNU infrastructure.
- Technical Update: Auto-patching of
wrf_io.F90
to support more than 3,000 variables inwrfbdy
. - Technical Update: No longer inputs initial/boundary conditions for non-advected species through
i0{12}
switch inregistry.chem
. - Enhancement: Recompile no longer wipes configuration files by automatically calling
make install_configs
. Configuration files are installed once usingmake install_registry
or others for specialty simulations. - Enhancement: New coupler species generation infrastructure shared with CESM2-GC.
- Enhancement: Support for
QV2M
met field for online blowing snow emissions. - Bugfix: Fix stack corruption issue in
chemics_init
coordinates. - Bugfix: More robust support for
get_last_gas
due to WRFv4 upstream updates. - Bugfix: Month-boundary HEMCO emissions missing timesteps.
- Bugfix: ParaNOx stability issue via upstream GEOS-Chem 14.0.1 fix. Note that according to
Colombi et al., 2023 ACP <https://acp.copernicus.org/articles/23/4031/2023/>
_ it may not be necessary to use ParaNOx for high-resolution simulations with WRF-GC. - Bugfix: Initial condition input bug for nested domain(s).
2.0.1
This is version 2.0.1 of WRF-GC, released 2021/09/17.
WRF-GC v2.0 (Feng et al. (2021)) is an online two-way coupling of the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) meteorological model (v3.9.1.1) and the GEOS-Chem chemical model (v12.8.1). WRF-GC v2.0 is built on the modular framework of WRF-GC v1.0 and further includes aerosol-radiation interactions (ARI) and aerosol-cloud interactions (ACI) based on bulk aerosol mass and composition, as well as the capability to nest multiple domains for high-resolution simulations.
Major features of WRF-GC v2.0:
- Updated compatibility with the latest release of GEOS-Chem v12.8.1
- Aerosol-radiation interactions and aerosol-cloud interactions that can be turned on/off
- Nested-domain functionality
- Online lightning NOx emissions
- Restart run functionality
- Bug fixes from v1.0