For Immediate Release
February 28th, 2012
Contacts: Wynne Anderson,
University of Maryland ESSIC Scientist Releases CWRF Source Code to the Public
COLLEGE PARK, MD – University of Maryland’s Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center researcher Dr. Xin-Zhong Liang, also a professor in the CMNS-Atmospheric & Oceanic Science Department, released a regional climate model Fe. 17 called the Climate-Weather Research Forecasting Model (CWRF), a significant extension of the original Weather Research Forecasting Model (WRF). The model has been ten years in the making by Dr. Liang’s team in collaboration with NOAA and NCAR, and facilitates the use of an optimized physics ensemble approach to improve weather forecast or climate prediction and their impacts on terrestrial hydrology, coastal oceans, crop growth, air quality, water quality and ecosystems.
The model meets users’ needs to simulate climate variability and change in the past and future at regional-local scales and predict consequences on the above mentioned areas. The model is in high demand in the climate prediction community, and has already been heavily cited since its development and before public release. The model and simulation data also offer potential applicatons by end-users and policy makers for decision making and planning processes. (See “Climate Information: Responding to user Needs (CIRUN)”).
Dr. Liang et al. had their paper on CWRF published Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society today, where it has generated large responses within the scientific and climate forecasting community.
CWRF Model Home: http://cwrf.umd.edu
Climate Information: Responding to User Needs: http://www.climateneeds.umd.edu
Media Contacts
Wynne Anderson
Earth System Interdisciplinary Center
