[Wrf-users] Soil moisture question

Fri Oct 16 07:06:07 MDT 2009

Dear wrf-users
I would like to know how is soil moisture defined in the NOAH LSM. Is the
volume of water divided by the total soil volume or the volume of water
divided by the soil porosity.
Thanks a lot!
Best regards.
Juan.

Juan Ruiz
University of Buenos Aires

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> Date: Fri, 2 Oct 2009 11:12:54 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Matei Georgescu <mateig at stanford.edu>
> Subject: [Wrf-users] Default WRF3.1 Albedo Dataset
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> Greetings fellow WRF users,
>
> Does anybody have the source for the default, climatological albedo
> dataset (the one used with "usemonalb" specified in the namelist) used in
> WRF3.1?
>
> On a related note, has anybody incorporated, for example, MODIS-derived
> (background) albedo in WRF?
>
> It appears that the seasonal albedo variability, within the US
> cropland area of the midwest for example, is much smaller than expected.
>
> thanks much for your replies,
> matt
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> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 16:49:13 +0200
> From: "HEDDE Thierry" <thierry.hedde at cea.fr>
> Subject: Re: [Wrf-users] pb compiling WRF with GRIB2 on x86_64
> 	GNU/Linux	with gfortran
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> Dear wrf users,
>
> I've found a simple way to compile WRF 3.1.1 with GRIB2 on x86_64
> GNU/Linux with gfortran.
>
> I've just modified the io_grib2.F file the following way:
> 	- replace the "allocatable" attribute in the "TYPE :: HandleVar" with a
> "pointer" attribute
> 	- replace the "allocated" statement with "associated" for the "%Times"
> variable
>
> You'll find the file io_grib2.F attached to the mail and the differences
> with the original file as well (diff_io_grib2.F).
>
> I checked:
> 	1 - It compiles well
> 	2 - There is no memory leak when cycling deallocation/allocation (with a
> small test program)
>
> Does somebody could test the validity of the new io_grib2.F file on a real
> case? I have no reference result to test it.
>
> Thank you all for helping
>
> Thierry HEDDE
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> Envoy??: vendredi 2 octobre 2009 16:11
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> Objet?: Re: [Wrf-users] pb compiling WRF with GRIB2 on x86_64
> GNU/Linuxwith gfortran
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> wrf-users-request at ucar.edu wrote:
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>> Message: 1 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 16:06:39 +0200 From: "HEDDE Thierry"
>> <thierry.hedde at cea.fr> Subject: [Wrf-users] pb compiling WRF with
>> GRIB2 on x86_64 GNU/Linux with	gfortran To: <wrf-users at ucar.edu>
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>> Hello dear wrf users,
>>
>>
>>
>> I've got an F90 syntax error while compiling WRF 3.1.1 with the grib2
>> option on a x86_64 GNU/Linux machine using the gfortran compiler
>>
>>
>>
>> It compiles OK with the ifort compiler.
>>
>> It is a known error with gfortran : when you try to define an
>> allocatable variable inside a TYPE definition.
>>
>> I had a look at the io_grib2. file but it looks quite hard to modify
>> in a simple way the fortran source to get rid of the error
>>
>>
>>
>> Did anybody have the same problem and fixed it?
>>
>> - Using another version of gfortran?
>
> This would be the fix.  Your version of gfortran is too old.  It looks
> like gfortran 4.2 or newer should support allocatable derived type
> components.
>
> -- Steve
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