begin

;read wrfinput file to get corresponding latitude and lontiude for the netcdf needed to be changed
f_latlon = addfile("~/Data/WUS_domain/wrfinput_d01", "r")
latitude = wrf_user_getvar(f_latlon, "XLAT", 0)
longitude = wrf_user_getvar(f_latlon, "XLONG", 0)
nlats  = dimsizes(latitude(:,0))
nlons  = dimsizes(longitude(0,:))

lat = fspan(latitude(0,0),latitude(nlats-1,0), nlats)
lon = fspan(longitude(0,0), longitude(0,nlons-1), nlons)
lon!0 = "lon"
lon@long_name = "lon"
lon@units = "degrees_east"
lon&lon    = lon
lat!0      = "lat"
lat@long_name  = "lat"
lat@units  = "degrees_north"
lat&lat    = lat

dir = "~/Data/hrldas_wus/"
; use do loop to get my filename
do i=0,5113

    i@units = "days since 1999-01-01"
    utc_date = cd_calendar(i, 2)
    extension = "0100.LDASIN_DOMAIN1"


    ;the vegetation fraction file has latitude nad longitude
    file= str_get_cols(utc_date, 0, 5)+"_0125.nc"
    f_cover = addfile(dir+file, "r")
    fcover  = f->FCOVER

; the file will be change. The vegetation fraction in this file has south_north and west_east attributes, which can give me location information
    f = addfile(dir+utc_date+extension, "w")
    vegfra = f->VEGFRA

    do y = 0,158
        do x = 0,198
            lat_y = lat(y)
            lon_x = lon(x)

            vegfra(0,x,y) = fcover(0,{lat_x:lat_x},{lon_y:lon_y})
        end do
    end do


    f->VEGFRA = vegfra

    delete(f)
    delete(f_cover)
    delete(vegfra)
    delete(fcover)




end do


end