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<DIV style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Bart,</DIV>
<DIV>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/?<VAR id=yiv1533672194yui-ie-cursor></VAR>) to </DIV>
<DIV><A href="http://rt_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl/" target=_blank>RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl</A>, because it does take some time to run.</DIV>
<DIV>TIA,<BR>Steve</DIV>
<DIV><BR>=========================================================================<BR>Hi all,</DIV>
<DIV>Does anyone have an alternative to RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl? </DIV>
<DIV>I'm running WRF in 5.5 day chunks, with about ~50 MB/hour of OBS in<BR>LITTLE_R format. Because the amount of data is so large, this perl<BR>script takes a really long time to run -- about 4 days per 5.5-day init<BR>(running on a compute node with 4 GB of RAM: I/O over NFS, and clearly<BR>swapping). That's longer than I expect my WRF run to take.</DIV>
<DIV>Has anyone re-written this program in FORTRAN or another compiled<BR>language that might be more efficient?</DIV>
<DIV>Bart<BR>=========================================================================</DIV></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><BR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>