Implementing an integrated WRF (I-WRF) framework  to support multi-node containerized simulations





Selected Publications

Journal & Juried Conference Papers

Zhou, X. & Pryor, S.C. (2025). Urban Effects on Precipitation from Deep Convection over the Northeastern United States in Current and Future Climates. Journal of Geophysical Research, in review.
Zhou, X., Letson, F., Crippa, P. & Pryor, S.C. (2024). Urban Effect on Precipitation and Deep Convective Systems over Dallas-Fort Worth . Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres.
Knepper, R., Pryor, S.C., Wineholt, B, Bukovsky, M. & Lee, J. (2023). The I-WRF Framework: Containerized Weather Modeling, Validation, and Verification. Proceedings of the Practice and Experience in Advanced Research Computing (PEARC23).

Other Publications, Conference Papers & Presentations

Lee, J. A., Siems-Anderson. A., Haupt, S.E., Wilczak, J.M., Zhou, X., Pryor, S.C. & Barthelmie, R.J. (2025). Exploring renewable energy drought potential over CONUS. Presentation at the 8th International Conf. on Energy & Meteorology, Padova, Italy.
Haupt, S.E. (2025). What's Needed for Best Practice Forecasts? . Presentation at the Energy Systems Integration Group Forecasting & Markets Workshop, Nashville, TN.
Lee, J. A. (2024). Introduction to CI-Enabled Climate Science Research and Student Opportunities at NSF NCAR. Presentation at the MS-CC Workshop: Campus Technology, Cybersecurity, & Research Computing Support, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL.
Lee, J. A. (2024). Career Conversations Panel: Data-Intensive Climate Science.. Panelist at the MS-CC Workshop: Campus Technology, Cybersecurity, & Research Computing Support, Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL.
Lee, J.A. & Trumbore, B. (2024). I-WRF Interactive Tutorial, MS-CC Workshop: Campus Technology, Cybersecurity, & Research Computing Support. Alabama A&M University, Huntsville, AL.
Zhou X., Letson F., Crippa P., Bukovsky M. & Pryor S.C. (2024). Influence of urbanization on deep convection in different climates.. AGU Fall Meeting. Washington D.C.
Knepper, R., Pryor, S.C., Lee, J.A. & Haupt, S.E. (2024). CSSI: Frameworks: Large Scale Atmospheric Research Using an Integrated WRF Modeling, Visualization, and Verification Framework (I-WRF). Poster presented at the 2024 NSF CSSI PI Meeting, Charlotte, NC.
Knepper, R. (2024). I-WRF: Containerized Framework for Weather Modeling, Verification, and Visualization. Presentation at the 2024 International Conference on Digital Government Research.
Lee, J.A. (2024). Status of Climate Change Projections on Wind & Solar Resources. Presentation at the 2024 Energy Systems Integration Group Forecasting & Markets Workshop.
Knepper, R. (2024). I-WRF: Containerized Framework for Weather Modeling, Verification, and Visualization. Presentation at the 2024 Minority Serving-Cyberinfrastructure Consortium Annual Meeting.
Knepper, R. (2024). I-WRF Update.. Presentation at the Spring 2024 Coalition for Academic Scientific Computing Spring Meeting.
Knepper, R., Pryor, S.C., Zhou, X., Lee, J.A. & Haupt, S.E. (2024). I-WRF: Containerized WRF, MET, and MET Plus for Portability, Scaling, and Outreach. 104th Annual Meeting of the American Meteorological Society.
Knepper, R., Pryor, S.C., Haupt, S.E. & Lee, J (2023). CSSI: Frameworks: Large Scale Atmospheric Research Using an Integrated WRF Modeling, Visualization, and Verification Framework (I-WRF). Poster presented at the 2023 NSF CSSI PI Meeting, Houston, TX.
Zou, X., Letson, F., Crippa, P. & Pryor, S.C. (2022). Urban Impacts on Deep Convection in the Southern Great Plains. Presentation at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting 2022.

Other Products

Introduction to I-WRF: A Containerized Framework for Weather Modeling, Verification, and Visualization (2024) - Hurricane Matthew test case ( I-WRF v. 0.2.0) with instructions for running on Jetstream2. This pre-workshop was delivered prior to I-WRF’s Minority Serving- Cyberinfrastructure Consortium in-person workshop sessions held at Alabama A&M (58:45 video).
Running I-WRF on Jetstream2 with Hurricane Matthew Data (2024) - how-to guide
Running I-WRF on Red Cloud with Hurricane Matthew Data (2024) - how-to guide
Running I-WRF on Windows (Intel CPU) with Hurricane Matthew Data (2024) - how-to guide
I-WRF User’s Guide - getting started, configuration, use cases, etc.
NCAR/i-wrf - I-WRF GitHub repository under development
ncar/iwrf - I-WRF Docker Hub
I-WRF Framework: Containerized Weather Modeling, Validation, and Verification (2024) - a brief introduction to I-WRF and Hurricane Matthew demo (YouTube)