ufs-srw-v2.0.0
24 June 2022: Short-Range Weather (SRW) Application v2.0.0
Release Notes
The UFS Community is proud to announce the public release (version 2.0.0) of the UFS Short-Range Weather Application. This newly updated weather application is designed for short-range (up to two days) regional forecasts located anywhere on the globe. It contains the Common Community Physics Package (CCPP) v6.0.0, version 10.1.0 of the Unified Post Processor (UPP) and version 3.0.0 of the UFS Weather Model. Documentation has been significantly enhanced and numerous test cases with all associated data files are now available to the public. The application is highly portable and detailed instructions describe how to build and run on a wide variety of platforms, including Ubuntu Linux and MacOS.
Documentation: User's Guide v2.0.0
Known Issues
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On MacOS, users must run
brew install bash
before using brew to upgrade bash. MacOS users also need to runbrew install gsed
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Bash/dash issue: On some systems,
.sh
points to bin/dash instead of bin/bash. On these systems, users can runsed -i -e 's/bin\/sh/bin\/bash/g' *.sh
to resolve the issue. -
On Gaea: The staged data path in
regional_workflow/ush/machine/gaea.sh
must be updated from ncep to ncep_shared if users do not have access to thencep
directory. To do this, changestaged_data_dir
to"/lustre/f2/pdata/ncep_shared/UFS_SRW_App/v2p0/"
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When users build the HPC-Stack for use with the SRW App v2.0.0, they should clone the HPC-Stack
srw-public-v2
branch as follows:git clone -b release/srw-public-v2 https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/hpc-stack.git
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Known WE2E Test Failures: Some failed tests will pass if run a second time individually. The following tests consistently fail:
Platform Test Failure Stage Error Message What was done? Cheyenne (gnu) specify_DOT_OR_USCORE run_fcst FATAL from PE4: set_group_update: mpp_domains_stack overflow, call mpp_domains_set_stack_size( 3013795) from all PEs. Increased domains_stack_size in input.nml and the test still crashes Jet (Intel) pregen_grid_orog_sfc_climo run_fcst FATAL from PE4: NetCDF: Start+count exceeds dimension bound: netcdf_read_data_2d: file:INPUT/C403_grid.tile7.halo3.nc- variable:x