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Guides for the Universidad del Norte HPC cluster, the Barranquilla forecast viewer and the software the lab maintains.

HPC guides

Written for UN-HPC (CentOS 7 / OpenHPC), but most steps apply to any Slurm cluster.

Run WRF and WRFDA on UN-HPC

Install, configure and run the Weather Research and Forecasting model and WRFDA on CentOS 7 / OpenHPC.

June 2021

Set up mpi4py on UN-HPC

mpi4py with miniconda, with examples for interactive sessions and SBATCH jobs.

April 2021

Run Python scripts with conda on UN-HPC

Virtual environments on the cluster, plus JupyterLab through an SSH tunnel.

June 2021

Install C and Fortran NetCDF libraries

Step-by-step PDF for Ubuntu.

February 2017

Tools & software

Open-source code and operational systems maintained by the group.

WRF-BAQ 0.5 km forecast viewer

Barranquilla forecasts at 0.5 km grid spacing, updated every 3 hours on the Granado HPC cluster.

Operational

TEDA

Lightweight Python framework for teaching ensemble-based data assimilation. SoftwareX 2025.

GitHub

AMLCS-DA

Data assimilation package in Python for atmospheric general circulation models. SoftwareX 2023.

SoftwareX

Precision matrices via modified Cholesky

Statistical package for computing precision covariance matrices. SoftwareX 2025.

SoftwareX