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fv3gfs-wrapper: a Python wrapper of the FV3GFS atmospheric model
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Noah D. Brenowitz
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Mark Cheeseman
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Spencer K. Clark
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA
Johann P. S. Dahm
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Eddie C. Davis
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Oliver D. Elbert
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA
Rhea C. George
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Lucas M. Harris
Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, NOAA, Princeton, NJ, USA
Brian Henn
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Anna Kwa
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
W. Andre Perkins
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Oliver Watt-Meyer
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Tobias F. Wicky
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Christopher S. Bretherton
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Oliver Fuhrer
Vulcan Inc., Seattle, WA, USA
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Short summary
FV3GFS is a weather and climate model written in Fortran. It uses Fortran so that it can run fast, but this makes it hard to add features if you do not (or even if you do) know Fortran. We have written a Python interface to FV3GFS that lets you import the Fortran model as a Python package. We show examples of how this is used to write
modelscripts, which reproduce or build on what the Fortran model can do. You could do this same wrapping for any compiled model, not just FV3GFS.
FV3GFS is a weather and climate model written in Fortran. It uses Fortran so that it can run...
