Welcome to the UFS Weather Model User’s Guide

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Code Overview
  • 2.1. UFS Weather Model Hierarchical Repository Structure
  • 2.2. Directory Structure
• 3. Building and Running the UFS Weather Model
  • 3.1. Prerequisite Libraries
  • 3.2. Downloading the Weather Model Code
  • 3.3. Building the Weather Model
    • 3.3.1. Setting environment variables for NCEPLIBS, NCEPLIBS-external and CMake
    • 3.3.2. Setting the CCPP_SUITES environment variable
    • 3.3.3. Building the model
  • 3.4. Running the model
• 4. Inputs and Outputs
  • 4.1. Input files
    • 4.1.1. Static datasets (i.e., fix files)
    • 4.1.2. Grid description and initial condition files
    • 4.1.3. Model configuration files
    • 4.1.4. Namelist file input.nml
  • 4.2. Output files
  • 4.3. Additional Information about the FMS Diagnostic Manager
    • 4.3.1. Diagnostic Manager namelist
• 5. SDF and Namelist Samples and Best Practices
• 6. FAQ
  • 6.1. How do I build and run a single test of the UFS Weather Model?
  • 6.2. How do I change the length of the model run?
  • 6.3. How do I select the file format for the model output (netCDF or NEMSIO)?
• 7. Acronyms
• 8. Glossary