Welcome to the WRF Developmental
Testbed Center
DTC is a distributed facility where the NWP community can test and evaluate new models and techniques for use in research and operations.
Fundamental Purpose of DTC
To serve as a bridge between research and operations to facilitate the activities of both halves of the NWP Community in pursuit of their own objectives:
- Research community gets a functionally equivalent operational environment to test and evaluate new NWP methods in retrospective extended period tests using advanced tools
- Operational community benefits from DTC testing and evaluation of strengths and weaknesses of new NWP advances prior to consideration for operational implementation
DTC's Goals are to:
- Link Research and Operational Communities
- Speed transition of research results into operations
- Accelerate improvement in weather forecasts
– Develop and test promising new NWP techniques
– Provide an opportunity for NWP community to perform cycled or real-time tests of model and data assimilation systems
Basic Structure of the DTC
What is WRF
- A system of codes developed and maintained by the NWP research and operational community
- The codes are developed and tested jointly by this community
- Intended to promote a rapid transfer of new NWP technology developed in the research community into operations
The WRF Community
- Research
– Conceive and develop new NWP concepts, techniques, and systems
– Evaluate performance of current operational systems
– Develop and maintain the Contributed Code system
– Use of the WRF system for basic research
- Testbed Centers
– Provide a test facility for the NWP community to link research and operations
– Evaluate contributed codes for elevation to Reference Code
– Recommend changes to the Reference Code system
- Operations
– Evaluate, choose and maintain the operational codes
– Prepare NWP guidance from the operational models
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