CONUS 3km Quick Start Guide

1. On Hera or Jet, clone the app’s main branch and navigate to its directory:

   git clone https://github.com/NOAA-GSL/mpas_app.git --recursive
   cd mpas_app
   

2. Build the model and components:

   ./build.sh -p <platform>
   

3. Load the mpas_app conda environment:

   source load_wflow_modules.sh <platform>
   

4. Create your user yaml in the ush directory. The file itself can be as simple as:

   user:
     experiment_dir: /path/to/exp/dir
     platform: jet
   platform:
     account: wrfruc
   

5. Generate the experiment:

   cd ush
   ./experiment_gen.py workflows/3km_conus.yaml workflows/conus.<platform>.yaml <your_user_yaml.yaml>
   

This generates an experiment directory at the path specified in your user YAML that contains a Rocoto XML file, which is ready to use.