[Wrf-users] ERA-Interim SST in WRF

[Satyaban Bishoyi Ratna]

Dear User,I am trying to prescribe (update) ERA-Interim SST for a month long simulation with WRF3.4. I found that the METGRID program is wrongly reading the SST value. I have used the  "read_wrf_nc" utility to read the METGRID outputs and found that the SST value ranges from 0 to 300.98 which are different than the input SST value. 
read_wrf_nc met_em.d01.2000-11-01_00:00:00.nc -v SST INPUT FILE IS: met_em.d01.2000-11-01_00:00:00.nc     Field                : SST FieldType            : 104 Description          : Sea-Surface Temperature Units                : K Stagger              : M Total times in file  :   1 Dimensions           :  214 (x)  149 (y)    1 (z)   2000-11-01_00:00:00  :   MIN =   0.000000000        MAX =   300.9088440           --- End of input file ---   
Could you please suggest how to overcome this error.I have run the model and found this wrong SST value in the postprocessed output. Please find herewith attached the plots for the differences observed in the input SST value and SST in the WRF model.
Thanks.RegardsSBR
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