convert emiss error

[mughalo]

Hi WRF Chem community

I am trying to run the exe002 from the WRF tutorial. I am using the latest WRF version 4.4.1, and I generated the following files through PREP_CHEM_SRC V 1.5

WRF-T-2010-07-14-000000-g1-volc.bin
WRF-T-2010-07-14-000000-g1-gocartBG.bin
WRF-T-2010-07-14-000000-g1-bb.bin
WRF-T-2010-07-14-000000-g1-ab.bin
I checked them in the grads which shows that the emissions and I have linked them correcty to the WRF run directory. I am getting the errors in the attached rsl files while running the convert_emiss utility. I am also attaching my namelist. input for convenience. Please note that I found no errors when the convert_emiss utility was compiled

 

[jordanschnell]

Hi,

The convert_emiss utility has not been well managed over the past several WRF versions. I recommend to try using an older version of the code for the convert_emiss program (e.g., v3.6.1 from here: WRF Download).

Jordan

 

[mughalo]

Hi Jordan
It took a long way to install WRF V 3.6.1 and along side the convert_emiss utility however I am still getting the exact same error. I am not sure what could be the problem.
I would request @kwerner to at least update the files provided on the ftp server ftp://aftp.fsl.noaa.gov/divisions/taq/tutorialexercises/
The files are missing or misplaced for most of the exercises only few files are present in the link added to the tutorial and even these donot have the namelist.input

 

[jordanschnell]

Hi,

Unfortunate to hear v3.6 does not work. @kwerner does not control those files, but I can look into getting them updated. Are you missing a specific file for this exercise? Also, your namelist is slightly different from the one here: https://ruc.noaa.gov/wrf/wrf-chem/tutorialexercises/exe001/namelist.input. While this is exe001, and so changes need to be made for exe002, which namelist did you start with?

Jordan

 

[mughalo]

Hi Jordan
thanks for the reply. Please see my attached namelists for both exercises. Kindly note that p_top_requested had to be increased from 5000 to 10000 to let real run as otherwise it gives an error. The exercise 2 also suggests to use the wrfinput and boundary file from exercise 1.

 

[mughalo]

Hi Jordan

Do you have an idea of what might be going wrong here ? I have been going around in circles for almost a month now.
I also tried to use anthro_emiss utility but it seems like it is only suitable for anthropogenic emissions from EDGAR.

 

[mughalo]

Ok solved it by using a higher version of PREP_CHEM_SOURCE (1.8)