WPS Version 4.5
This major release of the WRF Preprocessing System includes the following
notable changes and fixes:
* Add entries for CLDMASK, CLDBASEZ, CLDTOPZ, and BRTEMP to the METGRID.TBL
file in support of MAD-WRF.
* Add a new Vtable (Vtable.GFS_OZONE) and METGRID.TBL entry to allow for
processing of GFS total column ozone.
* Improve the accuracy of the wind rotation angle fields SINALPHA and COSALPHA
at sub-km grid scales.
* Update ungrib to fully support 9-character variable names.
* Introduce a new geogrid table, GEOGRID.TBL.ARW_LCZ, that includes an entry for
a global 100-m LCZ dataset.
* Add support for processing DWD ICON model GRIB2 data in ungrib and metgrid.
Aside from changes to the WPS code, the static fields for use with the GSL GWD
scheme have also been updated to incorporate corrections to an issue in the
orographic asymmetry fields (see ufs-community/UFS_UTIL Issue #716).
Acknowledgements: Special thanks are due to Michael Graf (@grafmi),
Jordan Schnell (@jordanschnell), Adam Dury (@WQadam),
Pedro Jimenez Munoz (@pedro-jm), and Cenlin He (@cenlinhe).