Error while trying to create static.nc

[518er2005]

Dear MPAS users,
I am using MPAS 8.2 to create a static file for a quasi uniform 10km resolution mesh for a regional simulation. While doing so I am getting the error as listed below:
--- start interpolate SOILCOMP
ERROR: Could not find an 'index' file in geotile directory: /home/user/WRF/WPS_GEOG/soilgrids/soilcomp/
CRITICAL ERROR: Error occurred initializing interpolation for /home/user/WRF/WPS_GEOG/soilgrids/soilcomp/

If any one can help me in this by saying how to solve this problem it will be much appreciated.

Thanks
Debashis

 

[mgduda]

Even if you don't intend to use the Noah-MP LSM in your simulations, the MPAS v8.2 release still requires the five new Noah-MP static fields soilcomp, soilcl1, soilcl2, soilcl3, and soilcl4 to be processed along with other static fields in the init_atmosphere core. Downloading updated static geographical datasets from https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/projects/mpas/mpas_static.tar.bz2 and referring to those with the config_geog_data_path namelist option in your namelist.init_atmosphere file should resolve the error you're seeing.

 

[blaylockbk]

I've run into a similar issue, but for a different file:

```
--- start interpolate LU_INDEX
ERROR: Could not find an 'index' file in geotile directory: /my/home/WPS_GEOG/modis_landuse_20class_30s/
CRITICAL ERROR: Error occured initalizing interpolation for /my/home/WPS_GEOG/modis_landuse_20class_30s/
```

I downloaded and extracted the mandatory files from WRF's Static Data Downloads, which contains the directory `modis_landuse_20class_30s_with_lakes` but not `modis_landuse_20class_30s` which init_atmosphere_model is looking for (as specified in MPAS-Model/src/core_init_atmosphere/mpas_init_atm_static.F at b9090a1434b8ceb2a92fc985f4d97e7947cd95a6 · MPAS-Dev/MPAS-Model)

Edit:
I ended up creating a link to the folder `ln -s modis_landuse_20class_30s_with_lakes/ modis_landuse_20class_30s` and that seems to work for MPAS.

Also, I got the same error as the initial comment. To fix it, I had to also download the `soilgrids` additional fields on the WRF Download Page: Static Data Downloads

Also needed to download https://www2.mmm.ucar.edu/wrf/src/wps_files/landuse_30s.tar.bz2

 

[mgduda]

@blaylockbk I think you'll need to use the static data download from the MPAS-A downloads page: Static Geographic Datasets — MPAS Atmosphere documentation . The sets of default static fields for WRF and MPAS-A have diverged over time, with the effect that the WRF static field download no longer provides the fields that MPAS-A requires.