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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en-US"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/xhtml;charset=UTF-8"/> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=11"/> <meta name="generator" content="Doxygen 1.9.8"/> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"/> <title>UPP: UPP</title> <link href="tabs.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="dynsections.js"></script> <link href="navtree.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="resize.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="navtreedata.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="navtree.js"></script> <link href="search/search.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/> <script type="text/javascript" src="search/searchdata.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="search/search.js"></script> <link href="doxygen.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" /> </head> <body> <div id="top"> <div id="titlearea"> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tbody> <tr id="projectrow"> <td id="projectalign"> <div id="projectname">UPP<span id="projectnumber"> (develop)</span> </div> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </div>   <script type="text/javascript"> /* @license magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3d9a9a6595521f9666a5e94cc830dab83b65699&dn=expat.txt MIT */ var searchBox = new SearchBox("searchBox", "search/",'.html'); /* @license-end */ </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="menudata.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="menu.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> /* @license magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3d9a9a6595521f9666a5e94cc830dab83b65699&dn=expat.txt MIT */ $(function() { initMenu('',true,false,'search.php','Search'); $(document).ready(function() { init_search(); }); }); /* @license-end */ </script> <div id="main-nav"></div> </div> <div id="side-nav" class="ui-resizable side-nav-resizable"> <div id="nav-tree"> <div id="nav-tree-contents"> <div id="nav-sync" class="sync"></div> </div> </div> <div id="splitbar" style="-moz-user-select:none;" class="ui-resizable-handle"> </div> </div> <script type="text/javascript"> /* @license magnet:?xt=urn:btih:d3d9a9a6595521f9666a5e94cc830dab83b65699&dn=expat.txt MIT */ $(document).ready(function(){initNavTree('index.html',''); initResizable(); }); /* @license-end */ </script> <div id="doc-content">  <div id="MSearchSelectWindow" onmouseover="return searchBox.OnSearchSelectShow()" onmouseout="return searchBox.OnSearchSelectHide()" onkeydown="return searchBox.OnSearchSelectKey(event)"> </div>  <div id="MSearchResultsWindow"> <div id="MSearchResults"> <div class="SRPage"> <div id="SRIndex"> <div id="SRResults"></div> <div class="SRStatus" id="Loading">Loading...</div> <div class="SRStatus" id="Searching">Searching...</div> <div class="SRStatus" id="NoMatches">No Matches</div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div><div class="header"> <div class="headertitle"><div class="title">UPP </div></div> </div> <div class="contents"> <div class="textblock"><h1><a class="anchor" id="autotoc_md0"></a> Unified Post-Processing (UPP)</h1> <p>The UPP code is publicly available on GitHub at <a href="https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP">https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP</a>.</p> <h2><a class="anchor" id="autotoc_md1"></a> Documentation for Previous Versions of UPP</h2> <ul> <li><a href="upp-srw-v2.2.0/index.html">UPP Version UPP-SRW-v2.2.0</a></li> <li><a href="upp_v11.0.0/index.html">UPP Version 11.0.0</a></li> </ul> <h2><a class="anchor" id="autotoc_md2"></a> Background Information</h2> <p>The Unified Post Processor (UPP) software package is a software package designed to generate useful products from raw model output. The UPP is currently used in operations with the Global Forecast System (GFS), GFS Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS), North American Mesoscale (NAM), Rapid Refresh (RAP), High Resolution Rapid Refresh (HRRR), Short Range Ensemble Forecast (SREF), Hurricane WRF (HWRF) applications, and is also used in Unified Forecasting System (UFS) applications. The UPP provides the capability to compute a variety of diagnostic fields and interpolate to pressure levels or other vertical coordinates. UPP also incorporates the Joint Center for Satellite Data Assimilation (JCSDA) Community Radiative Transfer Model (CRTM) to compute model derived brightness temperature (TB) for various instruments and channels. This additional feature enables the generation of a number of simulated satellite products including GOES products. Output from the UPP is in National Weather Service (NWS) and World Meteorological Organization (WMO) GRIB2 format and can be used directly by visualization, plotting, or verification packages, or for further downstream post-processing, e.g. statistical post-processing techniques. Examples of UPP products include:</p> <ul> <li>T, Z, humidity, wind, cloud water, cloud ice, rain, and snow on pressure levels</li> <li>SLP, shelter level T, humidity, and wind fields</li> <li>Precipitation-related fields</li> <li>PBL-related fields</li> <li>Severe weather products (e.g. CAPE, Vorticity, Wind shear)</li> <li>Radiative/Surface fluxes</li> <li>Cloud related fields</li> <li>Aviation products</li> <li>Radar reflectivity products</li> <li>Satellite look-alike products</li> </ul> <h2><a class="anchor" id="autotoc_md3"></a> Prerequisites</h2> <p>The UPP requires certain NCEPLIBS packages to be installed via the spack-stack project. For instructions on installing these packages as a bundle via spack-stack, see: <a href="https://spack-stack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/">https://spack-stack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/</a>. The UPP/modulefiles directory indicates which package versions are used and supported on Level 1 systems.</p> <h2><a class="anchor" id="autotoc_md4"></a> Community Support</h2> <p>Community support for the Unified Forecast System (UFS) UPP in FV3-based applications is provided by the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC). Community support for the UPP with WRF is no longer available.</p> <ul> <li>Support for the UFS UPP is provided through <a href="https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/discussions">GitHub Discussions</a>.</li> <li>The UPP User's Guide for the latest standalone public release is <a href="https://upp.readthedocs.io/en/upp_v11.0.0/">UPP v11.0.0</a>.</li> <li>The UPP User's Guide for develop branch is <a href="https://upp.readthedocs.io/en/develop/">UPP develop</a>.</li> <li>The <a href="https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/wiki">UPP wiki</a> includes relevant information and links for users and developers.</li> <li>Instructions on technical code documentation are available in a set of <a href="https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/wiki/DoxygenDocumentation.pdf">Doxygen Documentation Slides</a>.</li> </ul> <p>Code Managers: Wen Meng (EMC), Huiya Chuang (EMC), Fernando Andrade-Maldonado (EPIC) </p> </div></div> </div> </div>  <div id="nav-path" class="navpath"> <ul> <li class="footer">Generated by <a href="https://www.doxygen.org/index.html"><img class="footer" src="doxygen.svg" width="104" height="31" alt="doxygen"/></a> 1.9.8 </li> </ul> </div> </body> </html>