July 20, 2010 - NCAR/UCAR First Day - End of Day - Late Night

It's 10:30 and I got a real case of WRF to run.

What I had neglected to do before was configure and compile both WRF and WPS first, then go through the geogrid, ungrib, metgrid, real, and wrf chain.

Steps to run a real case:

1. configure WRF
2. compile WRF
3. configure WPS
4. compile WPS
5. run geogrid.exe
6. run ungrib.exe
7. run metgrid.exe
8. run real.exe
9. run wrf.exe

Note: I believe that steps 5 and 6 can switch orders...they both feed into metgrid.exe, and so can be changed and altered willy-nilly.

What I need to learn:

How do I change parts of WRF/WPS after I have a run set-up?
What is the equivalent of case names? How do I differentiate between runs?
Do I need a new WRF/WPS directory every time?

Goal for tomorrow: full run of WRF-CHEM