3 km static file created by create_region doesn't have nSoilComps as a dimension and results in error when creating initial conditions

[emurillo]

I'm trying to create the initial conditions for my 3 km mesh regional (CONUS) MPAS run. When I run the initial conditions, I get the following error:

Reading dimensions from input streams ...
----- reading dimensions from stream 'input' using file conus.static.nc
nCells = 2493988
nEdges = 7488430
nVertices = 4994443
TWO = 2
maxEdges = 6
maxEdges2 = 12
vertexDegree = 3
R3 = 3
nMonths = 12
nSoilComps *** not found in stream ***
ERROR: At least one fields to be read from the 'input' stream is dimensioned

I checked my conus.static.nc file and it does not have nSoilComps as a dimension. However, when I was practicing running the regional model with 60 km mesh over the same spatiotemporal domain, it does in fact have nSoilComps = 8. Does anyone know what could have caused this dimension to not be put in the 3 km conus.static file or know of a way around this?

Thanks!
Elisa

 

[mgduda]

The nSoilComps dimension is used by the Noah-MP-specific field soilcomp, which was added to the static files in MPAS v8.2.0. So it may be that you've extracted the 3-km CONUS static file from a global 3-km static file that was produced prior to MPAS v8.2.0.

The 3-km static file from the mesh download page does contain the Noah-MP static fields, though it looks like the 3-km static tar file that we had on Glade campaign storage was lacking these fields. I've just updated the tar file at /glade/campaign/mmm/wmr/mpas_meshes/x1.65536002_static.tar.gz so if you're working on Derecho, you could unpack the v8.2.0 static file from there.

 

[smasters]

So, to clarify..If we have static.nc files downloaded for version 8.1 (and all static.nc files derived from them for my regional runs), then the global static.nc files need to be re-downloaded (or re-built using init_atmosphere) and re-subsetted to be usable for version 8.3? Are the global static files for all resolutions on the web page fixed to have the corrected fields? I just tried v8.3 on an older 12-km subsetted static.nc file and got the error above.