Can some one explain what might be happening in the weather modeling project under consideration. The following quote is from the announcement on the beta testing forum:
"For those not familiar with the WRF application, it is used to simulate weather conditions over a region over a defined time period. The work for this project will be broken into small geographical regions, and in the end each region will be simulated for one calendar year. Each individual work unit represents 48 hours calendar time for this simulation. Once a result has been validated for the 48 hours, the output will be used to build the input for the next 48 hours of runtime."
What does "simulate" mean in this context?
What is the work unit likely to be - a geographical region with the givens as in a train model layout with the " givens" such as altitude, vegetation, urban features, reflectivity, etc.?
In simulating, are variables such as temperature, wind speed and direction and humidity at point A applied to this model and then conditions predicted for point B at the edge of the region?
In doing this, how does one build a model?
What is the project searching for? - verification of the formulas used for calculation, proof of concept, "will it work" or some other question that I have not thought of?