Weather Research & Forecasting for newbies

Sometimes you get involved in some interesting subject like this one, modeling weather , free software, research and developing ,and more. Well,and this is the last day of academic activities , no more business days in the University, at least XD.

And you get the opportunity to meet another area, i mean, as computer geek; and i'm proud of them !, you cannot get involved easily in other knowledge areas beyond computing,and this time someone of the mechanical area visit us in order to get help about some software he is trying to use. Their are in thermo-fluids department(unfourtanely at this moment theres no site =( ) and they are developing projects with weather computer models, and let me say , at this point , that the best part of this is that they need free software in order to do that!!.

We are talking about WRF, and as they claim in their site, "The Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) Model is a next-generation mesoscale numerical weather prediction system designed to serve both operational forecasting and atmospheric research needs". Believe it or Not!

As he is a newbie in the nixes world, the unknown many procedures to get installed this software, the common questing get arise, what is configure ?, how can i get executed that line ? should i have to use sudo all the time ? and many others.

Just following the instructions showed in the web site , you can get it.Some pics to show what you can do.