I have not personally tried using tiled data, but you could probably handle the different tiles as different sources of data. There is a section in the WRF users guide that describes how to do that. It is titled: Using Multiple Meteorological Data Sources<br>
<br>Or perhaps someone else has the experience to give specific directions.<br><br>Kevin<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 12:01 PM, Wu, Zhong-Xiang (Lowell,MA-US) <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ZWu@trcsolutions.com">ZWu@trcsolutions.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"><div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Hi,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">I am trying to use NAM 12-km tiled forecasts from NCEP in the WPS processing to create met initial files for WRF modeling. My WRF domain covers an area more than one NAM 12-km tile, so multiple NAM files are needed at one hour. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Is there anyone who used the NAM 12-km tiled forecasts to initialize WRF in the similar way? And how should I use the data if WPS accepts multiple tiled files?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Thanks,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";">Zhong</span></p>
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