[Wrf-users] RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl

[Saji Hameed]

Hi Bart,

It would be an interesting exercise to try. Could you provide the most
minimal sample of the observation data in Little_R format?
--the perl file looks simple enough
saji

On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 11:18 AM, steve kirby <thin_runner at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Hi Bart,
> I saw your message (see below), to the WRF user group from Mar 2011.  Did
> you or anyone else come up with an alternative (C/FORTRAN/?) to
> RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl, because it does take some time to run.
> TIA,
> Steve
>
> =========================================================================
> Hi all,
> Does anyone have an alternative to RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl?
> I'm running WRF in 5.5 day chunks, with about ~50 MB/hour of OBS in
> LITTLE_R format.  Because the amount of data is so large, this perl
> script takes a really long time to run -- about 4 days per 5.5-day init
> (running on a compute node with 4 GB of RAM: I/O over NFS, and clearly
> swapping).  That's longer than I expect my WRF run to take.
> Has anyone re-written this program in FORTRAN or another compiled
> language that might be more efficient?
> Bart
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