[Wrf-users] WRF 3.2.1 error when starting the nested domain

[Feng Liu]

Hi, Xingang,
I tried to run WRF with your namelist here. I got what is wrong with it. Change:
 
input_from_file                     = .true.,.false.,.false.,

into 

input_from_file                     = .true.,. .true.,. .true.,.

Then nest input file contains land information will be available. So it should work right way. Please let me know if you have any results.

Feng

-----Original Message-----
From: Xingang Fan [mailto:xingang.fan at wku.edu] 
Sent: Wednesday, October 13, 2010 3:25 PM
To: Feng Liu
Subject: Re: [Wrf-users] WRF 3.2.1 error when starting the nested domain

  Hi, Feng:

Thank you very much for looking into this.

Before your suggestion, I also tried to run WRF 3.2. Running without 
nudging went through but running with nudging stopped for the same 
reason as I did with WRF 3.2.1.

The one that run through, the wrfout_d01 files contain (by ncdump -h)

MMINLU = "USGS"
NUM_LAND_CAT = 24

but in wrfout_d02 and wrfout_d03 files, they show:

MMINLU = ""
NUM_LAND_CAT = 24

In the original wrf.exe.log file, if you have noticed, there are 
contents like:

  INPUT LandUse = "USGS"
  LANDUSE TYPE = "USGS" FOUND           33  CATEGORIES            2  SEASONS
   WATER CATEGORY =            16  SNOW CATEGORY =            24
  INITIALIZE THREE Noah LSM RELATED TABLES
   LANDUSE TYPE = USGS FOUND           27  CATEGORIES
   INPUT SOIL TEXTURE CLASSIFICAION = STAS
   SOIL TEXTURE CLASSIFICATION = STAS FOUND           19  CATEGORIES

Why here has a 33 and 27 categories. but From my met_em files, 
NUM_LAND_CAT=24?

I tried your suggestion, both WRF 3.2.1 and WRF 3.2 stopped as before.

I appreciate your time and your insight.

Xingang

Xingang Fan, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Dept. Geography&  Geology
Western Kentucky University
1906 College Heights Blvd, #31066
Bowling Green, KY 42101-1066
Phone: (270)745-5980
Email: xingang.fan at wku.edu


On 10/13/2010 4:26 PM, Feng Liu wrote:
> Hi, Xingang,
> I supposed something wrong with LANDUSE data according to the error message "d02 1970-01-11_18:00:00  MMINLU error on input" at the end of wrf_log.txt. You are using the 24 USGS land use categories, I think, you may add
> num_land_cat = 24 at the session of&physics in namelist.input.
> and try to run the model again. Thanks.
> Feng
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu] On Behalf Of Xingang Fan
> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 11:46 AM
> To: wrfhelp
> Cc: wrf-users at ucar.edu
> Subject: [Wrf-users] WRF 3.2.1 error when starting the nested domain
>
>    Hi:
>
> It would be greatly appreciated if anybody out there could help with the following problem.
>
> I am running WRF 3.2.1 with three nests. The D02 and D03 starts 6 hours later than D01 the coarse grid. The model runs ok for D01, but stopped after output the first time period for D02. The error message is: "...
> Could not find matching time in input file wrfout_d02_1970-01-11_18:00:00".
> Details are in the attached wrf_log.txt. Both MPI run and serial (one
> cpu) run have the same problem.
> Why here says the input file wrfout_d02..?
>
> Another problem I noticed is the message about "must be old WPS". I am running new WPS from 3.2.1 package. In my case, I got data from a GISS model output, and it is converted to WRF intermediate format. So, I ran only geogrid.exe and megrid.exe.
>
> Thank you in advance for any help. The namelist.input is also attached.
> Xingang Fan
>
> Xingang Fan, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor
> Dept. Geography&   Geology
> Western Kentucky University
> 1906 College Heights Blvd, #31066
> Bowling Green, KY 42101-1066
> Phone: (270)745-5980
> Email: xingang.fan at wku.edu
>
>