UPP content removal

Removal of Content Advisory - April 2024

Advisory to Unified Post Processing System (UPP) users: As of the beginning of April 2024, all support assets for Unified Post Processing System (UPP) will be removed from the DTC website. Users should download all reference materials of interest prior to April 2024.

UPP User Release Version 3.2

Release Date:

The UPP User Release Version 3.2 was released on December 13, 2017.

Release Notes

This release supports use of WRF-ARW model input. The DTC no longer provides UPP support for NMM or NMM-b modeling cores due to lack of support for those modeling cores. 

A fair amount of documentation has been created and/or expanded as part of this release including: 

Minor bug fixes were also implemented and effort made to sync this community release of UPP with the operational version at NCEP.

  • A new online tutorial to help users become familiar with the UPP software. 
  • Documentation on how to add new variables to the UPP code based.
  • Updated field output tables for both grib1 and grib2 formats in addition to other valuable grib identifier information.


Known Issues and Fixes

Error compiling with gfortran

Problem: Users may encounter an error when compiling the INITPOST_NETCDF.f routine with gfortran. While this routine is not used to run community UPP, it will result in a failure to build the unipost.exe executable.
Solution: A bug fix for this issue was patched into the V3.2 code base immediately after the release. If you encounter this error, please re-download the UPPV3.2 release and that will contain the fix.

Error using wgrib2 utility

Problem: An error message will result when using the most recent version of the wgrib2 utility on files for forecast zero that contain accumulated or time averaged fields:

*** FATAL ERROR: Statistical processing bad n=0 ***

This is because newer versions of the wgrib2 utility no longer allow for n parameter to be zero or empty
Solution: Users should consider using separate control file (postcntrl.xml / postxconfig-NT.txt) for forecast hour zero that does not include accumulated or time averaged fields, since they are zero anyway. Users can also continue to use an older version of wgrib2.