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<div style="direction: ltr;font-family: Tahoma;color: #000000;font-size: 10pt;">Elena<br>
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WPS (your second line) makes the file containing the SSTs that WRF reads in when sst_update=1 (your first line).<br>
Hope this helps,<br>
<br>
Andrea Hahmann<br>
DTU Wind Energy<br>
Denmark<br>
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<div style="direction: ltr;" id="divRpF691377"><font color="#000000" face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> wrf-users-bounces@ucar.edu [wrf-users-bounces@ucar.edu] on behalf of Elena Maria Pison San Pedro [emp@dhi.com.sg]<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, November 07, 2012 9:52 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> wrfhelp@ucar.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> wrf-users@ucar.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Wrf-users] SST update versus SST used in initial conditions<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Hi,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">I would like to know which is the difference if there is any between:</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""> updating daily SST information into the model via
<b>sst_update =1</b> in <u>namelist.input</u> and</span></p>
<p class="MsoListParagraph" style="text-indent:-18.0pt"><span class="style1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""><span style="">-<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">
</span></span></span></span><span class="style1">Introducing SST information via WPS with the “<b>prefix = 'SST' and
</b></span><b>fg_name = 'FILE'</b> “<span class="style1"> in <u>namelist.wps</u>?</span><span class="style1"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif""></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Thanks a lot in advance!</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">Kindly regards,</span></p>
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