Quick Start for Users

Quick Start for Users

Users may access and install the WAVEWATCH III^® software package in two ways:

• Clone the WW3 GitHub repo, or
• Download the tar bundle.

Installing from the GitHub clone

Note that the WW3 package has two parts that need to be combined if you want to run the regression tests: the GitHub repo itself and a binary data file bundle that needs to be obtained from our ftp site. To do that follow the steps below.

Step 1: Clone the repo and checkout the latest Public Release

git clone https://github.com/NOAA-EMC/WW3/release/latest

cd WW3

Step 2: Download and expand large/binary/netcdf files

cd WW3

sh model/bin/ww3_from_ftp.sh

Step 3: Set up your model environment

./model/bin/w3_setup model -c <comp> -s <switch>

Run the command without options to see usage.

Step 4: Compile the code

cd model/bin

./w3_automake

Frequently-Asked Questions

We will be regularly updating a FAQs page with answers to common questions.

For information on contributing development back to WW3, please see the Development Portal