How to create a WRF HTML browser

To create a WRF HTML browser, one can use a perl script to convert fortran source files into a hyperlinked web site, f90tohtml.

The three HTML browsers WRFV4 master branch, wrf-fire master branch, and WRF-Fire-merge fuel-moisture-model branch, are created in Kingspeak in /uufs/chpc.utah.edu/common/home/u6015636/web_browser. They are created following the next steps:

1) Download the source code using

wget https://storage.googleapis.com/google-code-archive-downloads/v2/code.google.com/f90tohtml/f90tohtml-1.12.tar.gz

2) Untar downloaded file, and access to the folder

tar -xvf f90tohtml-1.12.tar.gz
cd f90tohtml

3) Modify $path_f90tohtml variable in f90tohtml file with the path to f90tohtml directory. Run

pwd 

command, if necessary.

4) Give permission to f90tohtml file using

chmod u+x f90tohtml

5) Add this previous path to f90tohtml folder to the general path. For instance, using

export PATH=/path/to/f90tohtml:$PATH

6) Modify perl path in the first line of f90tohtml file. Run

 
which perl

to see your perl path.

7) Get WRF code in a path which we are going to name WRF_PATH.

8) Access nwp_codes folder:

cd wp_codes

9) Modify $the_path variable with the previous WRF_PATH in wrf_prepare.pl file.

10) Run

./wrf_prepare.pl

to create the proper .ls files in wrf_ls.

11) Modify $dir_html variable in wrf file with a path where is going to be created the hyperlinked web site. Note that it is necessary to finish the path with '/' character. One can also modify the title of the web browser modifying $contents_title variable in the same file.

12) Run

f90tohtml wrf.f2h

This will generate all the HTML files and subfolders with HTML files necessary to have a WRF browser inside the path specified.