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NWP Containers Online Tutorial | Snow Case (23 Jan 2016) > Set up environment

Set Up Environment

To run the snow storm case, first set up the environment for this case study.

If you have not already done so, navigate to the top-level experiment directory (where you have downloaded the container-dtc-nwp directory) and set the environment variables PROJ_DIR and PROJ_VERSION.

tcsh bash
cd /home/ec2-user
setenv PROJ_DIR `pwd`
setenv PROJ_VERSION 4.1.0
cd /home/ec2-user
export PROJ_DIR=`pwd`
export PROJ_VERSION="4.1.0"

Then, you should set up the variables and directories for the snow storm case:

For tcsh: For bash:
setenv CASE_DIR ${PROJ_DIR}/snow
export CASE_DIR=${PROJ_DIR}/snow
mkdir -p ${CASE_DIR}
cd ${CASE_DIR}
mkdir -p wpsprd wrfprd gsiprd postprd pythonprd metprd metviewer/mysql
 

Extra step for singularity users

Users of singularity containerization software will need to set a special variable for temporary files written by singularity at runtime:

tcsh bash
setenv TMPDIR ${PROJ_DIR}/snow/tmp
export TMPDIR=${PROJ_DIR}/snow/tmp
mkdir -p ${TMPDIR}