<div dir="ltr"><div>Ok Amadou</div><div>You may do a sensitivie test with ERA or CFS data against station observation to help know which is better for your region.</div><div>How to get the data I am currently using ERA-Interim data and you download the data(pressure, surface and invariant) fields that is if you wish.<a href="http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/">http://apps.ecmwf.int/datasets/</a></div><div>, for CFS I may be able to answer since I have never used it</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>thanks</div><div><br></div><div>Afwane</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 2, 2015 at 4:51 AM, Amadou Coulibaly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mpapin24@gmail.com" target="_blank">mpapin24@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Hi WRF users,<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">I am new WRF user and I want to run WPS from "WRFDomainWizard".<br><br><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">After updating my namelist.input, I arrived to "Step 5" which is "Run Preprocessors", and I difined my Grib files Dir to:<font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>Domain
is located on amadou-ThinkPad-X230 at
/home/amadou/WRF/sandbox/WizardDomain (ARW core)</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>Geography
files are in /home/amadou/WRF/sandbox/geo</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>Grib
Vtable needs to be selected</b></font></font><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:10pt"><b><br>Path
to GRIB data: /home/amadou/WRF/sandbox/WPS/ungrib/Variable_Tables<br><br></b></font></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large"><font face="Times New Roman, serif"><font size="2" style="font-size:10pt"><font size="4">And after this I got some messages like:<br></font><b><br></b></font></font> <font size="2">Today is the 306 day of the year for: 11/2/2015<br><br>Remove linked GRIBFILE.AAA, etc files<br> No GRIBFILE.xxx found.<br>List linked files found<br> No source GRIB files were found.<br><br>Today is the 306 day of the year for: 11/2/2015<br><br>Remove linked GRIBFILE.AAA, etc files<br> No GRIBFILE.xxx found.<br>List linked files found<br> No source GRIB files were found.<br><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large"><font size="2"><font size="4">I think is because of </font></font>"<i>Choose the GRIB files necessary to initialize WRF</i>".
I wanted to use Climate Forecast System Reanalysis (CFSR) data or
ERA-Interm data. But how to get them? And how to know which of them
would be suitable for my study area?<br><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large">Please find attached my namelist.wrf and my domain.<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:courier new,monospace;font-size:large"><br></div>Best regards<br clear="all"></div><br>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><b style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"><font color="#000066"> </font><font color="#000066">COULIBALY </font><font color="#000066">AMADOU </font></b><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,102);font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">PhD Student on West African Climate System (WACS)</span><br><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">FUTA</font><font color="#000066" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small"> - </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">F</font><font color="#000066" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">ederal </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">U</font><font color="#000066" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">niversity of </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">T</font><font color="#000066" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">echnology of </font><font color="#0000ff" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">A</font><font color="#000066" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:small">kure, Nigeria</font><div><font color="#000066" face="tahoma, sans-serif" size="2"><br></font><div><span style="color:rgb(76,17,48)"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i style="font-weight:bold">Visiting Student - 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