This shell script assists WRF/CMAQ users in installing the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model version 4.5 / US EPA Community Multiscale Air Quality Model (CMAQ) version 5.4 on Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS in 64-bit system. Before installing WRF/CMAQ, the fundamental and required libraries such as Zlib, HDF5, NetCDF-C, NetCDF-Fortran, Jasper, Libpng, MPICH and IOAPI must be installed. Using this code, all essential settings, libraries, WRF/CMAQ, and WRF Pre-Processing System (WPS) will be installed automatically.
Download this code to your computer and activate it with one of the following terminal commands:
chmod 777 Installation_of_WRF-CMAQ-Ubuntu.sh
or
chmod +x Installation_of_WRF-CMAQ-Ubuntu.sh
Then, run the following command to install WRF version 4.5 and CMAQ version 5.4 on your system;
./Installation_of_WRF-CMAQ-Ubuntu.sh
It is also possible to install WRF/CMAQ line-by-line. For this, you can open the code and copy each line in the terminal and press Enter.
At the end of the code, there are important links and references. You can use them to learn more about WRF/CMAQ.
Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. I started the coding with my contact details.