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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I'm using WRFv3.4.1, trying to initialize from ERA-Interim data. I've tried both ds627.0 and directly from
<a href="http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/dataserver">http://data-portal.ecmwf.int/data/d/dataserver</a>. For this discussion, let's assume it's the more commonly used ds627.0.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I ran
<b>ungrib.exe</b> using <b>Vtable.ERA-interim.ml</b> using the types of files specified at the end of the Vtable file. Using
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"># rd_intermediate.exe FILE:2005-12-31_12 | grep LEVEL<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I can see the 200100 level, and levels labeled 60.000000 down to 1.000000. I extracted the 60-layer table from<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><a href="http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/technical/model_levels/model_def_60.html">http://www.ecmwf.int/products/data/technical/model_levels/model_def_60.html</a> and
put it in a file <b>ecmwf_coeffs</b>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">I used the same
<b>namelist.wps</b> and <b>Vtable</b> to run <b>calc_ecmwf_p.exe</b>. I get PRES:* files, but they still contain the same 200100 level and levels from 1.00000 to 60.0000. Wasn't I supposed to get values like 100000 and 85000? My namelist DOES have the block<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR">&mod_levs<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR">press_pa = 201300 , 200100 , 100000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 95000 , 90000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 85000 , 80000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 75000 , 70000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 65000 , 60000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 55000 , 50000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 45000 , 40000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 35000 , 30000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 25000 , 20000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 15000 , 10000 , <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 5000 , 1000<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">included.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">For future searches of this list, the error in the next step (running
<b>obsgrid.exe</b>) is found its standard output:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR">Error finding the 850, 700, 500 hPa levels.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR">pressure= 1001.000 1012.000 1009.000 1005.000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 999.0000 990.0000 979.0000 966.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 950.0000 931.0000 909.0000 884.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 858.0000 828.0000 797.0000 763.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 728.0000 692.0000 654.0000 616.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 577.0000 539.0000 500.0000 462.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 425.0000 388.0000 353.0000 320.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 288.0000 257.0000 229.0000 202.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 177.0000 154.0000 133.0000 113.0000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 96.00000 80.00000 67.00000 55.00000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 44.00000 36.00000 29.00000 23.00000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 19.00000 15.00000 12.00000 10.00000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 8.000000 6.000000 5.000000 4.000000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 3.000000 3.000000 2.000000 2.000000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 1.000000 1.000000 1.000000 0.000000
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="Computer"><span lang="FR"> 0.000000 <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Any suggestions? Is there another version of
<b>calc_ecmwf_p.f90</b> that is known to work with ds627.0 data?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thanks,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Bart Brashers<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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