Overview

For each post-processing task, there are one or more corresponding NCL scripts which are automatically modified by the Linux shell scripts. The end user does not need to make any direct modifications on the NCL scripts, rather, the Linux shell scripts act as proxies between NCL codes and the end user, in modifying the NCL codes with regard to some primary input data, provided by the user.

Software structure

The processing steps through PostWRF is depicted below as a flowchart diagram:

PostWRF structure and run processes

Run PostWRF

Modify namelist.wrf and enable the section associated with the desired post-processing task:

vi namelist.wrf

Run the tool:

./postwrf.sh

The user can Run postwrf.sh with some special switches. Each switch is described by the command bellow:

./postwrf.sh -h