WPS WRF simulation time period difference

[satiz]

Hi,
I would like to know if it is compulsory to keep the simulation time period between WPS and WRF same. Can I run WPS for certain time period range (say 01-Jan-2020_00 to 03-Jan-2020_00) and do different runs of WRF with different starting time (eg: Run-1: 01-Jan-2020_06 to 03-Jan-2020_00, Run2: 01-Jan-2020_12 to 03-Jan-2020_00 etc). Since WRF runs depend on metgrid files I think running WRF with different start and end times than WPS, but within the WPS simulation time range, should not have any impact on the results. Please clarify my doubt. Thank You in advance.

 

[kwerner]

You are correct. As long as you have met_em* files for the initial time of your WRF simulation, and for the duration of the simulation, you can run real, and then wrf for any time in between the times you processed during WPS.