(RESOLVED) "Error in ext_pkg_open_for_write_begin"

[mgolbazi]

Hi everyone,

I am facing a problem with metgrid recently. When running 'metgrid.exe' for 2018. no matter what resolution of grib2 files I use, I get an error immediately that says:

"Processing domain 1 of 1
Processing 2018-07-01_00
FILE
ERROR: Error in ext_pkg_open_for_write_begin."

However, I did not get this error when I ran it for 2014.

I am kind of stuck here and I cannot find anything helpful online. So, I would appreciate any help from your side.

Thanks,
Maryam

 

[Ming Chen]

What data do you ungrib? Have you compared the intermediate file between 2014 and 2018?

 

[mgolbazi]

Hi,

I use the 6 hourly, 0.25 degree grib2 data from RDA website: https://rda.ucar.edu/datasets/ds083.3/index.html#sfol-wl-/data/ds083.3?g=201807.
I only use the "*.f00.grib2" data since I am not working on forecast.

About the comparison, I am actually not sure how to compare them! Do we use wgrib2 for that?

Thanks for the help!

 

[mgolbazi]

Actually, it just ran successfully! For some reason it could not find the folder I had defined in namelist.wps for metgrid outputs!
I deleted and created the folder again and it solved the problem!

Sorry for taking your time for this!