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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=JA link="#0563C1" vlink="#954F72" style='text-justify-trim:punctuation'><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Dear all,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I am not very good at English, so I apologize in advance.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I am running WRFV3.8 with NCEP FNL 1deg by 1deg reanalysis (<a href="https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#!description">https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#!description</a>) as the initial and lateral condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I have trouble getting proper soil moisture values for the initial condition.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>When I run real.exe and wrf.exe using met_em_d01* data from WPS, real.exe was OK, but in running wrf.exe, I got an error message below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Flerchinger USEd in NEW version. Iterations= 10<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>So I checked soil moisture and temperature values in met_em* files, and I found extremely high soil moisture values in a particular land area.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I attached a file of variable SM010040 , and a picture of its distribution below.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US><img border=0 width=713 height=911 id="図_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.png@01D389A7.5DB6A130"></span><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>The proper range of SM010040 values will be from 0 to 1, but in this picture, you will find moisture values in the particular area(41N,141E or 43N,144E) exceed this range by about E+20 order.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>In this case, I used NCEP FNL dataset at 2017/08/02 UTC. When I used 2017/09 dataset, the same error also occurred. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>But, when I used 2016/08, 2017/05 or 2017/02 dataset, wrf.exe did not detect any errors and I got proper initial soil moisture values.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>I also attached namelist.wps and Vtable.GFS for your information.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>If you know anything about it, please let me know.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Regards,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:11.0pt'>Yoshimura<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></body></html>