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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>We've been working with Timeseries for some time and have just noticed this "feature":</div><div><br></div><div>Is the time for the time column for the TS files series files leveraging the wrfinput file's "SIMULATION_START_DATE" which when running a model in "cycling" model with 3DVAR may not be the same as a given actual model start date ("START_DATE")? We're seeing time series files with the first TS time step staring later and later at intervals of six hours (the same as our cycling period). </div><div><br></div><div>For some reason we found this problem during our migration to WRF 3.5 but never before. Is this "new"? </div><div><br></div><div>(We have some obs nudging problems that have also suddenly emerged where the same data set that is read in a concurrent 3.4.1 run is happily ingested while the 3.5 runs halts in an error saying that it's read in the maximum number of observations — which is set to a value that is far far greater than the number of obs in the OBSDOMAIN file. We will submit when we have more information.)</div><br><div>Thanks Much</div><div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Courier New" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 12px; font-family: Consolas, monospace; "><div><div>================================================================</div><div>Bill Capehart <William.Capehart@sdsmt.edu> Associate Professor</div><div>Department of Atmospheric Sciences AES PhD Coordinator </div><div>213 Mineral Industries Building Skype/EVO: wcapehart</div><div>South Dakota School of Mines and Technology Ph: +1-605-394-1994</div><div>501 East Saint Joseph Street Fax: +1-605-394-6061</div><div>Rapid City, SD 57701-3995 Mobile: +1-605-484-5692</div><div>=================== http://capehart.sdsmt.edu ==================</div></div><div><br></div></span></span></font></div></div></div></body></html>