1.

Overview
- Introduction
- The WRF Modeling System Program Components

2.WRF Modeling System

- WRF Preprocessing System
 . Introduction
 . Function of Each WPS Program
 . Installing the WPS
 . Running the WPS
 . Creating Nested Domains with the WPS
 . Selecting Between USGS and MODIS-based Land Use Classifications
 . Selecting Static Data for the Gravity Wave Drag Scheme
 . Using Multiple Meteorological Data Sources
 . Alternative Initialization for Lake SSTs
 . Parallelism in the WPS
 . Checking WPS Output
 . WPS Utility Programs
 . Writing Meteorological Data to the Intermediate Format
 . Creating and Editing Vtables
 . Writing Static Data to the Geogrid Binary Format
 . Description of Namelist Variables
 . Description of GEOGRID.TBL Options
 . Description of index Options
 . Description of METGRID.TBL Options
 . Available Interpolation Options in Geogrid and Metgrid
 . Land Use and Soil Categories in the Static Data
 . WPS Output Fields

- Objective Analysis (OBSGRID)

 Introduction
 Program Flow
 Source of Observations
 Objective Analysis techniques in OBSGRID
 Quality Control for Observations
  Additional Observations
 Surface FDDA option
 Objective Analysis on Model Nests
 How to run OBSGRID
 Output Files
 Plot Utilities
 Observations Format
 OBSGRID Namelist

- WRF Model
 . Introduction
 . Installing WRF
 . Running WRF
 . Examples of namelist for various applications
 . Check Output
 . Trouble Shooting
 . Physics and Dynamics Options
 . Description of Namelist Variables
 . WRF Output Fields

- WRF Data Assimilation

 Introduction
 Installing WRFDA for 3D-Var Run
 Installing WRFPLUS and WRFDA for 4D-Var Run
 Running Observation Preprocessor (OBSPROC)
 Running WRFDA
 Radiance Data Assimilations in WRFDA
 Updating WRF boundary conditions
 Running gen_be
 Additional WRFDA Exercises
 WRFDA with Multivariate Background Error (MBE) Statistics
 WRFDA Diagnostics
 Hybrid Data Assimilation in WRFDA
 Description of Namelist Variables
- Post-Processing & Visualization
 . Introduction
 . NCL
 . RIP4
 . ARWpost
 . WPP
 . VAPOR

3.Software Installation
- Introduction
- Required Compilers and Scripting Languages
- Required/Optional Libraries to Download
- Post-Processing Utilities
- Unix Environment Settings
- Building the WRF Code
- Building the WPS Code
- Building the WRFDA Code