gpuwm-hex 0.4.5

gpuwm-hex 0.4.5. Requires gpuwm>=2.9.7,<2.10.

New

• The MPAS physics route runs every hex shape: limited-area regions, storm-following regions and ensembles, local time stepping, Hex with Regional, add-nest, restart, IAU, stochastic physics, chemistry, member rosters and two or more cards, with no native library.
• The MPAS physics route is faster: the host is off the step path, and Thompson, MYNN, Grell-Freitas and radiation run their GPU fast paths. Strict numerics still matches native MPAS-A bit for bit over a whole 24 h convection-permitting forecast.
• Hex with Regional in three shapes: a nest placed at launch, a nest added mid-run, and a nest that spawns when a storm attribute you set crosses its threshold.
• Doors start from any posted forecast hour with --lead-hours, from GFS, GEFS, IFS 0.25 and 0.1 degree, IFS ENS, AIFS and AIFS ENS.
• Regions take drawn shapes (--shape, --ellipse), open-ended resolution, and can be kept as inits.
• Every run writes the any-point column store for every output hour, so soundings can be drawn anywhere after the run.
• Maps stream every hour on region doors and ensemble members too.
• GSL drag statistics are built for any hex mesh.
• The MPAS route writes reflectivity (REFC) from its diagnostics stream.
• Moving regions: --lead-hours, --from-last-hour, and following targets set at launch.

Fixed

• 2-card runs: per-card modules, the compile check, the Noah stack limit, the Grell-Freitas halo and a local-time-stepping race.
• Kernel packs match the loaded NVRTC on new boxes, with a CUDA 13.0 row and all-cores compile.
• f000 carries the first physics call's surface diagnosis (10 m wind, fluxes, PBL height) on both routes.
• Local time stepping on a limited-area region imposes the interface flux.
• Storm-following runs keep their rendezvous at every check.
• Off-mesh sounding points are dropped with a note; limited-area runs default to cities on the mesh.
• A geography folder with a hidden file is accepted.
• --skip score queues no scorer, and the scorer never waits for frames valid in the future.
• Sonde scoring reads the year-to-date IGRA2 snapshot.
• GFS fetches fall back to the older AWS layout and the NCAR GDEX archive.
• A hydrometeor number neither carried nor diagnosed is never published.
• Region prepares build the parent's static from the region's halo instead of the whole globe.
• Storm-following segments resume on every core, and an MPAS-route segment moved over a geography with lakes no longer stops at its first land-surface call.
• MPAS-route exports carry terrain height and reflectivity, so keep-as-init, the column store and Hex with Regional work on that route.
• The ArWen route runs on gpuwm 2.9.7.
• Moving runs on column suites (HRRR shape) and over sea ice move past their first move, and a new member's sea ice brings its own albedo, emissivity and ice fraction.