[Wrf-users] Problem with Times in boundary file

[Andy Holland]

I'm running into a problem when I run real.exe.  The program says that 
it completes successfully, but the times in the wrfbdy file don't cover 
the time period I'm running for.  Here is part of my namelist file:

 start_year                          = 2002, 2002, 2001,
 start_month                         = 07,   07,   06,
 start_day                           = 01,   01,   11,
 start_hour                          = 00,   00,   12,
 start_minute                        = 00,   00,   00,
 start_second                        = 00,   00,   00,
 end_year                            = 2002, 2002, 2001,
 end_month                           = 07,   07,   06,
 end_day                             = 02,   02,   12,
 end_hour                            = 23,   23,   12,
 end_minute                          = 00,   00,   00,
 end_second                          = 00,   00,   00,

As you can see I'm running July 1-2, 2002.  Here are my GFS input files:
GFS:2002-07-01_00
GFS:2002-07-01_06
GFS:2002-07-01_12
GFS:2002-07-01_18
GFS:2002-07-02_00
GFS:2002-07-02_06
GFS:2002-07-02_12
GFS:2002-07-02_18
GFS:2002-07-03_00
GFS:2002-07-03_06

And then the files after wrfprep:
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-01_00:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-01_06:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-01_12:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-01_18:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-02_00:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-02_06:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-02_12:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-02_18:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-03_00:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d01.2002-07-03_06:00:00
wrf_real_input_em.d02.2002-07-01_00:00:00

These files cover the period of interest, but here is the output of 
'ncdump -v Times wrfbdy_d01':
data:

 Times =
  "2002-07-01_00:00:00",
  "2002-07-01_06:00:00",
  "2002-07-01_12:00:00",
  "2002-07-01_18:00:00",
  "2002-07-02_00:00:00",
  "2002-07-02_06:00:00",
  "2002-07-02_12:00:00" ;

Does anybody know why it's not covering the episode?

Thanks,
Andy Holland

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Andy Holland
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