ncview: can't recognize format of input file wrfout

[VladimirSobral]

Hi

I have run WRF with 3 nested domains and at the end of the process I have the message SUCCESS COMPLETE WRF.
However, ncview recognizes the first domain but don't recognize the others two domains.
Could anyone help me with this problem.
Attached the namelist files.

Thanks.

 

[VladimirSobral]

Please, let me add one more point.
At the end of the process, I can see the message SUCCESS COMPLET WRF twice (see figure attached).
Is it correct?

 

[kwerner]

Hi,
1) Which version of WRF are you running?
2) Can you check the sizes of your wrfout* files to see if they seem adequately-sized?
3) Will you share your error/out files? If you have multiple rsl* files, please package them all together in a single *.tar file.
4) Will you also share one of your d02 wrfout* files that you can't open with ncview? This is likely too large to attach, so take a look at the home page of this forum for instructions on sharing large files.

 

[VladimirSobral]

Hi @kwerner

Thank you so much for your reply.
The answers of your questions:
1) Version 4.5.2;
2) D01 (52,5 MB), D02 (120,5 MB) e D03 (100,6 MB);
3) I didn´t have rsl* files. At least I can't find them so I attached the configure.wrf file;
4) Yes. The file's name is wrfout_d02_2020-04-11_00:00:00. The file is in Forum Uploads

Please, consider these new namelist files.

Thanks.

 

[kwerner]

Thanks. I am also not able to open the wrfout_d02* file you shared. Per your configure.wrf, you only compiled WRF with a serial option, which is why you don't have any rsl* files - those are only produced when running with multiple processors. However, without an output file to look at, I'm not able to determine what went wrong here. Looking back at your screenshot above, I see that the last time for which the model wrote a file was for 2023-03-11_17:00:00, but it looks like you were asking it to go through to hour 21, so even though it shows a success message, it doesn't seem that it was actually successful. You may need to run this again and when you do, save the output to a file, instead of just letting it print to the screen, i.e.,

./wrf.exe >& wrf.txt

You can then attach the wrf.txt file and the namelist.input file you used for that run. I think it's almost certain that you're going to need to run this with more than a single processor, meaning you'll need to recompile WRF with a dmpar option, using MPI.

 

[VladimirSobral]

Hi @kwerner

Thanks for your comments.
I have run WRF before with a single processor and I had no problems, but I'm going to try using two processors.
Before this simulation, I had installed wrf-python on my laptop and I think I was not able to install the libraries correctly.
So I installed hdf5, netcdf and zlib libraries again and recompiled WRF. After this, I was able to open the wrfout* files. However, ncview shows this message:

- I am not set up to handle cases with coordinate mapping using anything other than 0 or 2 effective dims.

Do you think this can be a problem? I've never seen this message before.

As you resquest, I'm sending the wrf.txt files and namelist.input.

Thanks

 

[kwerner]

Great! I'm so glad to hear you were able to finally get your wrfout* files to open. As for the new message you're seeing, I'm unsure what that is. If you're able to open the files, though, I don't think it's too problematic. If you find that it's an issue, I'd recommend trying to search for that error online and perhaps in a netCDF or ncview forum or thread.