[Wrf-users] Output from metgrid.exe includes extremely high soil moisture values

[Don Morton]

Hi,

My apologies for not providing a detailed response, but I just wanted to
say that I vaguely recall that last summer, sometime in late July, NCEP
seemed to change some of structure of its GRIB files, products, etc.  I
also (vaguely) recall that the WRF community came up with a message
suggesting the use of a "fixed" utility for preprocessing.

Again, I don't recall all the details, but, if it was me in your position,
I might start googling and see if the change in format might be the root of
your problem.

All the best,

Don Morton

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On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 4:07 PM, 吉村 僚一 <yoshimura-r at edge.ifs.tohoku.ac.jp>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
>
>
> I am not very good at English, so I apologize in advance.
>
>
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> I am running WRFV3.8 with NCEP FNL 1deg by 1deg reanalysis (
> https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.2/index.html#!description) as the
> initial and lateral condition.
>
> I have trouble getting proper soil moisture values for the initial
> condition.
>
> When I run real.exe and wrf.exe using met_em_d01* data from WPS, real.exe
> was OK, but in running wrf.exe, I got an error message below.
>
>
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> Flerchinger USEd in NEW version. Iterations= 10
>
>
>
> So I checked soil moisture and temperature values in met_em* files, and I
> found extremely high soil moisture values in a particular land area.
>
> I attached a file of variable SM010040 , and a picture of its distribution
> below.
>
> The proper range of SM010040 values will be from 0 to 1, but in this
> picture, you will find moisture values in the particular area(41N,141E or
> 43N,144E) exceed this range by about E+20 order.
>
> In this case, I used NCEP FNL dataset at 2017/08/02 UTC. When I used
> 2017/09 dataset, the same error also occurred.
>
> But, when I used 2016/08, 2017/05 or 2017/02 dataset, wrf.exe did not
> detect any errors and I got proper initial soil moisture values.
>
>
>
> I also attached namelist.wps and Vtable.GFS for your information.
>
>
>
> If you know anything about it, please let me know.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Yoshimura
>
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