Weather Forecast and Research (WRF)

The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs. It features multiple dynamical cores, a 3-dimensional variational (3DVAR) data assimilation system, and a software architecture allowing for computational parallelism and system extensibility. WRF is suitable for a broad spectrum of applications across scales ranging from meters to thousands of kilometers.

Weather current situation
Resolution: 27km
Forecast: 144h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf3/d01
Resolution: 9km
Forecast: 144h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf3/d02
Resolution: 3km
Forecast: 144h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf3/d03

The effort to develop WRF has been a collaborative partnership, principally among the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (the National Centers for Environmental Prediction (NCEP) and the Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL), the Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA), the Naval Research Laboratory, the University of Oklahoma, and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). WRF allows researchers the ability to conduct simulations reflecting either real data or idealized configurations. WRF provides operational forecasting a model that is flexible and efficient computationally, while offering the advances in physics, numerics, and data assimilation contributed by the research community. WRF has a rapidly growing community of users, and workshops and tutorials are held each year at NCAR. WRF is currently in operational use at NCEP, AFWA and other centers. This site provides information on the WRF effort and its organization, references to projects and forecasting involving WRF, and links to the WRF users' page, real-time applications, and WRF-related events.

High Resolution Winds current situation
Resolution: 25km
Forecast: 24h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf5/d01
Resolution: 5km
Forecast: 24h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf5/d02
Resolution: 1km
Forecast: 24h
Initialization: Z00, Z06, Z12, Z18
Data: http://blackjeans.uniparthenope.it:9090/dods/wrf5/d03

More info about the WRF model: http://wrf-model.org

Links:
WMO
GOS
ECMWF
NOAA
NCAR
NOAA/NCEP
NOAA/EMC
NOAA/NCO
GFS
NCEP DATA GFS
FTPPRD/NCEP
NCO GFS prods
WRF get source
NetCDF
JASPER
WRF TUTORIAL
WRF-NMM Support
DTC MET
NCAR Graphics
Vis5D
GrADS
Parallel HDF5
VAPOR
EuroMETEO - Na
MeteoAlarm
Meteosat On Line