<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Hi Jose,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">why do you try to use the same number of vertical levels in your WRF runs as in the HadGEM2-ES input data? Try to set e_vert to something reasonable, i.e., for a 50hPa model top use something around 40.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">By the way, the HadGEM2-ES data on the ESGF nodes has 17 pressure levels (for variable zg), other variables are on 38 model levels (hybrid height coordinate).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Cheers</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Dom</div><div class=""> <br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25/11/2014, at 2:18 pm, Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga <<a href="mailto:veiga.uea@gmail.com" class="">veiga.uea@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear users,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I am forcing WRF (version 3.5) with HadGEM-2 data and in my small test with 36 hours I've successfully built the met_em_d* files during the pre-processing. However, I've been failing to create the appropriate boundary conditions to further run the model.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The error message bellow arises as soon as I run the real.exe program:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> Using sfcprs to compute psfc</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 You need one of three things:</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 1) More eta levels to reduce the dz: e_vert</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 2) A lower p_top so your total height is reduced: p_top_requested</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 3) Increase the maximum allowable eta thickness: max_dz</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 All are namelist options</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> -------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> FATAL CALLED FROM FILE: <stdin> LINE: 5779</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> dz above fixed eta levels is too large</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class=""> -------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class="">[0] MPI Abort by user Aborting program !</div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 13px; font-family: 'Andale Mono';" class="">[0] Aborting program!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">As 18 is the number of HadGEM-2 levels, I've testing different e_vert values in the namelist.input file (ex: 19, 20,....22) but the error still persisted. I've get attached the namelist.input file for some check. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, after some frustrating tests with e_vert I've decided to chance ptop values, but the error message persist. The only case I successfully run real.exe was after have set ptop=50000 (500 hPa) which does not fit my needs. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I didn't test with max_dz as I had not find where it is to be modified. </div><div class=""> <br class=""></div><div class="">So, I really appreciate if someone could help me on this issue.</div><div class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse" class=""><font color="#333333" class=""><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" class="">José Augusto P. 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