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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Hi all. <BR>My problem is with the restart runs. <BR>I am running the model with 3 nested domains. Initially I have following options in my namelist file. <BR>&time_control<br> run_minutes = 4680 ,<br> start_year = 2006, 2006, 2006,<br> start_month = 07, 07, 07,<br> start_day = 30, 30, 30,<br> start_hour = 00, 00, 00,<br> end_year = 2006, 2006, 2006,<br> end_month = 08, 08, 08,<br> end_day = 02, 02, 02,<br> end_hour = 06, 06, 06,<br> interval_seconds = 21600,<br> input_from_file = .true.,.true.,.true.,<br> history_interval = 180, 60, 60,<br> frames_per_outfile = 1000, 1000, 1000,<br> restart = .false.,<br> restart_interval = 720,<br> io_form_history = 2<br> io_form_restart = 2<br> io_form_input = 2<br> io_form_boundary = 2<br> debug_level =1<br>/<br> <br>model runs fine, and the restart files are created after 12 hours. <strong><u>But this file is not created for the d01 so I am getting this error.</u></strong> <BR>Following is the listing. <BR>bash-3.2$ ls -l wrf*2006*<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 195529696 Apr 29 17:07 wrfout_d01_2006-07-30_00:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 1883928568 Apr 29 17:17 wrfout_d02_2006-07-30_00:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 4295023768 Apr 29 17:17 wrfout_d03_2006-07-30_00:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 254326752 Apr 29 12:44 wrfrst_d02_2006-07-30_12:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 254326752 Apr 29 14:39 wrfrst_d02_2006-07-31_00:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 254326752 Apr 29 16:37 wrfrst_d02_2006-07-31_12:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 579721752 Apr 29 12:44 wrfrst_d03_2006-07-30_12:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 579721752 Apr 29 14:39 wrfrst_d03_2006-07-31_00:00:00<br>-rw-r--r-- 1 model staff 579721752 Apr 29 16:37 wrfrst_d03_2006-07-31_12:00:00<br>bash-3.2$<br><BR>Following changes I made for the restart runs. <BR> <BR> <BR>time_control<br> run_minutes = 4680 ,<br> start_year = 2006, 2006, 2006,<br> start_month = 07, 07, 07,<br> start_day = 31, 31, 31,<br> start_hour = 00, 00, 00,<br> end_year = 2006, 2006, 2006,<br> end_month = 08, 08, 08,<br> end_day = 02, 02, 02,<br> end_hour = 06, 06, 06,<br> interval_seconds = 21600,<br> input_from_file = .true.,.true.,.true.,<br> history_interval = 180, 60, 60,<br> frames_per_outfile = 1000, 1000, 1000,<br> restart = .true.,<br> restart_interval = 720,<br> io_form_history = 2<br> io_form_restart = 2<br> io_form_input = 2<br> io_form_boundary = 2<br> debug_level =1<br>/<br> <br>Error: <BR>Quilting with 1 groups of 0 I/O tasks.<br> Namelist dfi_control not found in namelist.input. Using registry defaults for variables in dfi_control<br> Ntasks in X 2 , ntasks in Y 4<br> WRF V3.0 MODEL<br> *************************************<br> Parent domain<br> ids,ide,jds,jde 1 82 1 82<br> ims,ime,jms,jme -4 47 -4 27<br> ips,ipe,jps,jpe 1 41 1 21<br> *************************************<br> DYNAMICS OPTION: Eulerian Mass Coordinate<br> alloc_space_field: domain 1 , 34924656 bytes allocated<br> RESTART run: opening wrfrst_d01_2006-07-31_00:00:00 for reading<br> NetCDF error: A file or directory in the path name does not exist.<br> NetCDF error in wrf_io.F90, line 989<br> -------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------<br> FATAL CALLED FROM FILE: mediation_wrfmain.b LINE: 148<br> program wrf: error opening wrfrst_d01_2006-07-31_00:00:00 for reading<br> -------------------------------------------<br><br><BR>Pls provide a clue to what's happening????<br>geeta<BR>                                            </div></body>
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