WRF-SUEWS coupling project

Make sure you use the following commands after cloning the repo:

git submodule init
git submodule update

These commands update SUEWS repo associated with WRF-SUEWS. Currently, it is an older version of SUEWS than the most up-to-date one.

1- Go to coupling-automator, and type make

2- It creates the WRF-SUEWS folder to compile (name of the folder depends on what you specify here)

3- In the created folder, type ./configure. This is for configuration of WRF-SUEWS. Choose number 15 for the compiler and basic option for the nesting.

4- Then you need compile the code: ./compile em_real >& compile.log. For this, you can submmit the job as following:

#!/bin/bash 
#BSUB -q short-serial 
#BSUB -o %J.out 
#BSUB -e %J.err 
#BSUB -W 02:30

./compile em_real >& log.compile

5- After compilation of the code, you need to transfer all the wrf_input files to the location of main run (usually ./test/em_real). It should include the boundary condition file.

6- You also need to copy namelist.suews to the same location.

7- Use LANDUSE.TBL in ./test/em_real to change the albedo associated with Urban aras (number 13 for MODIFIED_IGBP_MODIS_NOAH for both winter and summer. By default it is 15% (0.15). In London case, it is changed to 11%(0.11) based on Ward et al. 2016)

8- namelist.input should also be modified to be consistent for WRF-SUEWS. See examples here (specially the sf_surface_physics = 9 which specifies to use SUEWS as the LSM).

9- The rest of steps, are similar to usual WRF runs (running WRF-SUEWS)

To generate the original wrfinput files (before processing them for WRF-SUEWS), you should follow here. After generating wrfinput and wrfbdy, you need to follow pre-processing instructions to modify the input file suitbale for WRF-SUEWS runs

Please refer to this instruction for WRF-SUEWS preprocessing system (WSPS).