<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto">Hi Bart,</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">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=yui-ie-cursor></VAR>) to </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl, because it does take some time to run.</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">TIA,<BR>Steve</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto"><BR>=========================================================================<BR>Hi all,</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Does anyone have an alternative to RT_fdda_reformat_obsnud.pl? </div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">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 style="RIGHT: auto">Has anyone re-written this program in FORTRAN or another compiled<BR>language that might be more efficient?</div>
<div style="RIGHT: auto">Bart<BR>=========================================================================</div></div></body></html>