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Foreword

This User's Guide describes the Advanced Research WRF (ARW) Version 4 modeling system. This document is continuously updated as the WRF model is further developed. Please post feedback to the WRF & MPAS-A Support Forum.

This document is complementary to the WRF-ARW Tech Note, which describes the equations, numerics, boundary conditions, nesting, etc. in greater detail.

For updates to specific versions of the WRF code, see the WRF GitHub Release page.

All versions of this document can be found here.

Contributors to This Guide

Wei Wang, Cindy Bruyère, Michael Duda, Jimy Dudhia, Dave Gill, Michael Kavulich, Kelly Werner, Ming Chen, Hui-Chuan Lin, John Michalakes, Syed Rizvi, Xin Zhang, Judith Berner, Domingo Munoz-Esparza, Brian Reen, Soyoung Ha and Kate Fossell

Contributors to the WRF-Fire Chapter

Jonathan D. Beezley, Janice L. Coen, and Jan Mandel

Special Acknowledgment

We gratefully acknowledge the late Dr. Thomas T. Warner for his years of research, development, instruction, leadership, and motivation in the field of NWP modeling.