10.6084/m9.figshare.11750313.v1 Jordan Powers Jordan Powers nsf-cssi-2020-poster-powers figshare 2020 NSF-CSSI-2020-Poster Numerical weather prediction Cloud computing Meteorology 2020-01-28 20:42:15 Poster https://figshare.com/articles/poster/nsf-cssi-2020-poster-powers/11750313 CSSI Software Element: Cloud WRF for the Atmospheric <br>Research and Education Communities<br><br>The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is the world’s most popular numerical weather prediction model and is supported by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) to a community of users across universities, research labs, and operational centers. This effort is exploiting the emerging technology of cloud computing for the critical WRF support effort and for the <br>benefit of the worldwide user community. The work has established an officially-supported version of WRF in the cloud that extends system accessibility, improves model support and training, and facilitates model development. The components include: cloud-configured WRF system code; cloud WRF tutorial materials; and a cloud-based testing <br>capability for code contributions. To date, the cloud WRF materials have been used for tutorials on the modeling system, for student instruction at universities, and for new system version releases.