<div dir="ltr">I'm having the same problem, I tried with wrf 3.4.1 and 3.6.1. As input data I'm using FNL (dataset ds083.2), with the GFS vtable, which had worked ok before.<div>So I've changed the domain, vertical levels, and nothing seems to work, so I will try changing the input data to check if that's the problem.</div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2014-11-25 13:17 GMT-03:00 Dominikus Heinzeller <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:climbfuji@ymail.com" target="_blank">climbfuji@ymail.com</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word">Hi Jose,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div><br></div><div>Dom</div><div> <br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 25/11/2014, at 2:18 pm, Jose Augusto Paixão Veiga <<a href="mailto:veiga.uea@gmail.com" target="_blank">veiga.uea@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Dear users,<div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>The error message bellow arises as soon as I run the real.exe program:</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> Using sfcprs to compute psfc</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> 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'"> 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'"> 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'"> 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'"> d01 2005-03-01_00:00:00 All are namelist options</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> -------------- FATAL CALLED ---------------</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> FATAL CALLED FROM FILE: <stdin> LINE: 5779</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> dz above fixed eta levels is too large</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'"> -------------------------------------------</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'">[0] MPI Abort by user Aborting program !</div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:13px;font-family:'Andale Mono'">[0] Aborting program!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>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><br></div><div>I didn't test with max_dz as I had not find where it is to be modified. </div><div> <br></div><div>So, I really appreciate if someone could help me on this issue.</div><div><br clear="all"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><font color="#333333"><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">José Augusto P. 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