diff --git a/repos/spack_stack/spack_repo/spack_stack/packages/ufs_weather_model_env/package.py b/repos/spack_stack/spack_repo/spack_stack/packages/ufs_weather_model_env/package.py
index f00d05cf1..2a3c079db 100644
--- a/repos/spack_stack/spack_repo/spack_stack/packages/ufs_weather_model_env/package.py
+++ b/repos/spack_stack/spack_repo/spack_stack/packages/ufs_weather_model_env/package.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 
 
 class UfsWeatherModelEnv(BundlePackage):
-    """Development environment for ufs-weathermodel-bundle"""
+    """Development environment for ufs-weather-model"""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model"
     git = "https://github.com/ufs-community/ufs-weather-model.git"
@@ -22,25 +22,36 @@ class UfsWeatherModelEnv(BundlePackage):
         default=False,
         description="Build a debug version of certain dependencies (ESMF, MAPL)",
     )
-    variant("python", default=True, description="Build Python dependencies")
+    variant("python", default=True, description="Include extra Python packages")
+    variant("ncutils", default=True, description="Include extra NetCDF utilities (cprnc and nccmp)")
 
-    depends_on("base-env", type="run")
-    depends_on("ufs-pyenv", type="run", when="+python")
+    depends_on("cmake", type="run")
+    depends_on("python", type="run")
 
-    depends_on("fms +gfs_phys constants=GFS", type="run")
     depends_on("bacio", type="run")
     depends_on("crtm", type="run")
+    depends_on("esmf~debug", type="run", when="~debug")
+    depends_on("esmf+debug", type="run", when="+debug")
+    depends_on("fms +gfs_phys constants=GFS", type="run")
     depends_on("g2", type="run")
     depends_on("g2tmpl", type="run")
+    depends_on("gftl-shared", type="run")
+    depends_on("hdf5", type="run")
     depends_on("ip", type="run")
+    depends_on("jasper", type="run")
+    depends_on("libpng", type="run")
+    depends_on("mapl~debug", type="run", when="~debug")
+    depends_on("mapl+debug", type="run", when="+debug")
+    depends_on("netcdf-c", type="run")
+    depends_on("netcdf-fortran", type="run")
+    depends_on("parallelio", type="run")
+    depends_on("scotch", type="run")
     depends_on("sp", type="run", when="^ip@:4")
     depends_on("w3emc", type="run")
-    depends_on("scotch", type="run")
-    depends_on("cprnc", type="run")
+    depends_on("zlib-api", type="run")
 
-    depends_on("esmf~debug", type="run", when="~debug")
-    depends_on("esmf+debug", type="run", when="+debug")
-    depends_on("mapl~debug", type="run", when="~debug")
-    depends_on("mapl+debug", type="run", when="+debug")
+    depends_on("ufs-pyenv", type="run", when="+python")
+    depends_on("cprnc", type="run", when="+ncutils")
+    depends_on("nccmp", type="run", when="+ncutils")
 
     # There is no need for install() since there is no code.