[Wrf-users] MCIP not finding variable UST

[Thomas Nehrkorn]

Andy,

there is a UST variable in WRF, which is the friction velocity.  It 
should be part of the normal history file output (unless the relevant 
line 612 from the Registry.EM has been changed from its value in the 
2.1.1 distribution - the "h" indicates it is to be written to the 
history file):

state    real  UST              ij      misc        1         -      rh 
        "UST"                   "U* IN SIMILARITY THEORY" 
        "m s-1"

Hope this helps.

Thomas Nehrkorn

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Andy Holland wrote:
> I'm running MCIP on some WRF output I created and I'm getting this error 
> early in the run:
> 
> **********************************************************************
> *** SUBROUTINE: RDWRFEM
> ***   ERROR RETRIEVING VARIABLE FROM WRF FILE
> ***   VARIABLE = UST
> ***   RCODE = -49
> **********************************************************************
> 
> Does anyone know what this variable UST is and why it's not in the WRF 
> output file?
> 
> Thanks,
> Andy Holland
>