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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Dear WRF help and WRF users<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I have a question regarding reanalysis data MERRA.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">What is the easiest/fastest way to transform MERRA data into grib format to use in WRF?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Do I need to transform MERRA data into intermediate format, run rd_intermediate.exe and write my own ungrib Vtables?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I didn’t find MERRA Vtable in “/ungrib/Variable_Tables” directory (WRFv3.0.1 and WRFv3.4).
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