GIS4WRF is a free and open source QGIS plug-in to help researchers and practitioners with their Advanced Research Weather Research and Forecasting modelling workflows. GIS4WRF can be used to pre-process input data, run simulations, and visualize or post-process results (Fig. 1). We currently support GIS4WRF for Windows (7, 8, 10), macOS (Sierra, High Sierra), and Ubuntu (17.x, 18.x).

Did you know? We provide pre-built WPS and WRF binaries for Windows. After installing GIS4WRF go ahead and explore all its features from the included documentation.

Fig 1. Configure, run and visualize a WRF simulation in GIS4WRF

Tip: if you would like us to support other Linux distributions, fix a bug, or simply add a new feature, do let us know by opening an issue.

• GIS4WRF
  • Table of Contents
  • Installation Overview
  • Documentation Overview
  • How to reference GIS4WRF
  • Contributing
  • Versioning
  • Copyright and Licence

If you are already familiar with QGIS and have already installed the latest version of QGIS 3 on your system, you can find GIS4WRF ready to be downloaded and installed from the Plugins > Manage and Install Plugins... menu (Fig 2). If you are not familiar with QGIS, or are encountering issues with the installation, please refer to the installation guide.

Fig 2. GIS4WRF — Installation

After installation, you can configure GIS4WRF directly in QGIS from the Settings > Options... > GIS4WRF menu (Fig. 3). To learn more about features and how to use GIS4WRF please refer to the GIS4WRF documentation.

Fig 3. GIS4WRF — Configuration

Documentation on how to use GIS4WRF can be found directly in GIS4WRF under the Home tab. At each release of GIS4WRF, we bundle the most up-to-date documentation found in the GIS4WRF documentation repository. If you find a mistake in the documentation, would like to contribute or you would like to simply browse the documentation outside of QGIS, please refer to the GIS4WRF documentation repository.

We ask to please acknowledge our work by citing and referencing both, the GIS4WRF paper and the GIS4WRF software in the following way:

• For in-text citations, please cite both the paper and the software.

  E.g.: "We used GIS4WRF (Meyer and Riechert, 2018a, 2018b) for ..."

• For the full citation in the reference list, adapt using your chosen style from the example below.

  E.g. — reference list using the American Meteorological Society (AMS) style:

  Meyer, D., and M. Riechert 2018a. GIS4WRF: an integrated open source QGIS toolkit
      for the Advanced Research WRF Framework. Manuscript submitted for publication.
  
  Meyer, D., and M. Riechert, 2018b. GIS4WRF.
      doi:10.5281/zenodo.1288569.
  

If you would like to contribute to the GIS4WRF project, clone this repository, make your changes, and create a pull request with a clear description of your changes. If your changes are merged, you will appear as one of our Contributors.

This project uses semantic versioning.

Copyright 2018 D. Meyer and M. Riechert. Released under MIT License.