[Met_help] WRF utility

[John Halley Gotway]

Mike,

Good news.  Here's what I heard back from the WRF-Help support person for WPP:

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Please tell this user that there is a run_wrfpost_frames script that will
perform the unstaggering and output to grib format directly (he does not
need to separate out those files). It takes a wrfout file with multiple
"frames" (forecast times written to the file) and works on it.  This
script is available in version 3.0+ in the scripts directory.  Hopefully
he is using the latest version (3.0.1) anyway.

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Hopefully that'll do the trick for you.

John

John Halley Gotway wrote:
> Mike,
> 
> Sorry but I'm not familiar enough with the different variants of WRF Out files to answer your question directly.
> 
> Since this is really a question about the WRF PostProcessor, you should have much better luck submitting this question to wrfhelp (wrfhelp at ucar.edu).  So please go ahead and send this question to
> wrfhelp so that it can be tracked.  In addition, I'll forward your email directly to the person who provides support for running the WRF PostProcessor.
> 
> Thanks,
> John Halley-Gotway
> johnhg at ucar.edu
> 
> Michael D Mcatee wrote:
>> I'm trying to use MET to verify ARW forecasts.  I'm planning on using the 
>> WRF PostProcessor to convert ARW netCDF files on the model vertical 
>> coordinate to output field on pressure surface on an unstaggered grid in 
>> GRIB1 format.  However the WRF post processor docs indicate that the WRF 
>> netCDF output used can only have one frame (all variable at one output 
>> time) per file.  All of the ARW file I would like to verify have all 
>> forecasts hours (multiple frames) in one file.  Do you know of any utility 
>> that can extract a single frame from a ARW netCDF file that contains 
>> multiple frame and write that single frame to a separate netCDF file?
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> ___________________________
>> Michael D. McAtee, Ph.D.
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>> The Aerospace Corporation
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