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Software Release: UPP V10.1.0 Release

Summer 2022

The Developmental Testbed Center (DTC) is pleased to announce the release of the Unified Post Processor Version 10.1.0.  This release can be used in standalone mode and is also the version to be used as the post processor component in the upcoming UFS Short Range Weather (SRW) and Medium Range Weather (MRW) Application releases.  

Release Highlights

Since the last public release was announced, a number of features have changed, notably:

  • HPC-stack is used for prerequisite NCEPLIBS libraries

  • NEMSIO format is no longer supported

  • The itag was updated to be a formal Fortran namelist

Development and internal releases continued after the previous public release. Updates to this specific release include:

  • Unification of the global and regional FV3 interfaces and use of parallel NetCDF

  • Updates to the User Guide

  • Several bug fixes

  • Significant efforts to translate existing source code to Doxygen

  • Details about updates included in this release can be found on the GitHub releases page.

User Support

User help questions may be posted to the online UFS forum:

https://forums.ufscommunity.org/forum/post-processing

Questions may also be posted to the GitHub repository Discussions Board: 

https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/UPP/discussions

The UPP Users' Guide for this release can be found at: https://upp.readthedocs.io/en/upp_v10.1.0/

Technical code-level documentation: 

https://noaa-emc.github.io/UPP/

Download Information:

The preferred method for obtaining the code is to clone the release from GitHub.  Please visit the download page for links and more release information: https://dtcenter.org/community-code/unified-post-processor-upp/download.

 

This release is the result of the joint efforts of NOAA/NCEP and DTC through the support of NOAA and the National Science Foundation (NSF). We would like to thank contributors from NCEP, the DTC, and from the user community who have contributed to this release. 

 

Best Regards,

The UPP Team