Installing WRF-GC
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System Requirements
WRF-GC requires a set of compilers and libraries that are compatible with the WRF model and the GEOS-Chem High Performance model.
Recommended system setup (as tested):
- Compiler: Intel 15. There is limited support for the PGI and gfortran compilers.
- NetCDF-Fortran 4.4.4
It is recommended that you install all libraries in the same location (using the --prefix=/your/directory/here when calling the configure script).
For WRF to correctly find those libraries, you need to set the HDF5 & NETCDF environmental variables to point to the directory (which includes the bin, lib, include directories) where those libraries are installed.
You are also recommended to review the GEOS-Chem library installation guide.
Installing up WRF-GC
After obtaining the WRF and WRF-GC code in the Downloading WRF-GC step, you will need to set up the compile environment as follows:
- Set the environmental variables WRF_EM_CORE = 1, WRF_NMM_CORE = 0, and WRF_CHEM = 1 in your shell.
- Configure WRF using the hybrid sigma-eta grid option using the configure script, setting the distributed-memory parallel (dmpar) version of WRF with the Intel C and Fortran compilers. There is limited support for PGI and gfortran compilers, but they are not recommended for this alpha build.
- After configuration please navigate to the WRF-GC "chem" directory, and issue the following command: make install_registry. **This step is critical and must be done manually before compilation.**
- Compile WRF-GC using the ./compile em_real command.
We suggest you to review the [WRF User's Guide http://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/users/docs/user_guide_V3.9/users_guide_chap1.htm] for additional installation information.
