[Wrf-users] Changing land use

[Saji Hameed]

Hi Mikhail,

Can I have a copy of your C-program?

Thanks,
Saji

On Wed, Jun 1, 2011 at 6:05 AM, Mikhail Titov <TitovM at ap.aurecongroup.com>wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>
>
> I have a program written on C that transforms any input terrestrial ASCII
> code file (topo, land-use and so on) in WPS binary format:
> ‘rd_wr_binary.exe’.
>
> It is written on C as Fortran always leaves empty bits between 2 lines that
> is not appropriate. This program is 2-direction one and can be used to check
>
> binary input terrestrial files transforming them in ASCII code. The program
> is very flexible and easily can be changed and re-compiled.
>
>
>
> Of cause after preparation of our own terrestrial files I create new
> subdirectory (with tiles) and ‘index’ file in ‘geog’ and edit “GEOGRID.TBL”
> in
>
> ‘ WPS/geogrid/’ sub-directory to create several pointers on new terrestrial
> files and to choose an appropriate’ interp_option’.
>
>
>
> We use to create our own terrain and land-use files (using special
> statistical methods and GIS) all the time for fine resolution WRF runs
>
> (1000 – 500m) to study wind resources for different on-shore and off-shore
> sites. USGS 2m – 30s terrestrial data is too coarse and very often is a
> crap.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
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> *From:* wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu [mailto:wrf-users-bounces at ucar.edu] *On
> Behalf Of *Jorge Alejandro Arevalo Borquez
> *Sent:* Wednesday, 1 June 2011 3:48 a.m.
> *To:* Matt Foster
> *Cc:* wrf-users at ucar.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Wrf-users] Changing land use
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>
> Hi,
> other option is modify the binary files of some existing landuse (modis or
> usgs), matlab read and write those files whit almost no problem.
>
> Atentamente
> Jorge Arévalo Bórquez
>
>  On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Matt Foster <Matthew.Foster at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
>
> Hamed,
>
> We have done experiments here in the past, where we modified the greeness
> fraction based on data from polar-orbiting satellites.  We simply modified
> the geo_em NetCDF file, and it worked well.  You should be able to take the
> same approach with land use.
>
> Matt
>
>
>
>
> On 5/22/2011 6:06 AM, Hamed Sharifi wrote:
>
>   Dear All,
>
> I want to change some values of my landuse in order to see how it affects
> the whole domain. For example,
>
> change part of the landuse to Forest or Lack.
>
> Does anyone know about this issue?
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
>
>
> Hamed Sharifi,
> M.Sc Student, AUT Tehran/Iran      |hamed319 at yahoo.com  |
> +98-9364024805                            | hamed_sharifi at aut.ac.ir |
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Saji N Hameed,
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University of Aizu, Tsuruga, Ikki-machi,
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